Caravaggio paintings from A Name in Blood

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Artistic and religious convention had the Virgin rising up to heaven with the angels. Caravaggio painted her — his model Lena in this case — as an absolutely dead woman. It looks better to us, for that reason. To contemporaries it was blasphemy. In A NAME IN BLOOD it causes a major confrontation with the church and Caravaggio's powerful rival artists. Art, Artists, Virgin Mary, Evangelism, Italian Artist, Virgin, Images Of Christ, Dead, Artist
Artistic and religious convention had the Virgin rising up to heaven with the angels. Caravaggio painted her — his model Lena in this case — as an absolutely dead woman. It looks better to us, for that reason. To contemporaries it was blasphemy. In A NAME IN BLOOD it causes a major confrontation with the church and Caravaggio's powerful rival artists.
Model for the virgin was C's friend Anna Bianchini, a whore who died young of syphilis. It's a powerful memory for Caravaggio in A NAME IN BLOOD and inspires him to make sure the same thing doesn't happen to Lena. Paintings, Lena, Anna, Died, Die Young, Blood, Caravaggio
Model for the virgin was C's friend Anna Bianchini, a whore who died young of syphilis. It's a powerful memory for Caravaggio in A NAME IN BLOOD and inspires him to make sure the same thing doesn't happen to Lena.
The model is C's friend Fillide again, with a second woman whose beauty is so much greater for the way Caravaggio disguises her in the shadow. The convex mirror may be a clue to Caravaggio’s use of projected images to help him paint an exact, almost photographic, image. I saw a great exhibit on the subject in Rome and consulted with a friend who's a historian of science, before writing A NAME IN BLOOD. Madeleine, Artwork, Realism, Art Museum, Art Gallery, Oil Painting Reproductions
The model is C's friend Fillide again, with a second woman whose beauty is so much greater for the way Caravaggio disguises her in the shadow. The convex mirror may be a clue to Caravaggio’s use of projected images to help him paint an exact, almost photographic, image. I saw a great exhibit on the subject in Rome and consulted with a friend who's a historian of science, before writing A NAME IN BLOOD.
Young Caravaggio’s self-portrait is second from the right. 1595, age 23 or 24. Center, a Spanish castrato and pal of C's. Opera, Michelangelo Caravaggio, Fine Art, Baroque Art, Edward Hopper, Baroque Painting, Metropolitan Museum
Young Caravaggio’s self-portrait is second from the right. 1595, age 23 or 24. Center, a Spanish castrato and pal of C's.
Standing in the cavernous oratory in the Maltese capital Valletta where this masterpiece hangs is like watching a movie unfold before you. It’s a still image, yet Caravaggio captured what went before and what was to come. I believe he changed his technique to make this possible. It’s central to the art story-arc of A NAME IN BLOOD. Maltese, Masterpiece, Art Story, Valletta, Arc, Story Arc, Central
Standing in the cavernous oratory in the Maltese capital Valletta where this masterpiece hangs is like watching a movie unfold before you. It’s a still image, yet Caravaggio captured what went before and what was to come. I believe he changed his technique to make this possible. It’s central to the art story-arc of A NAME IN BLOOD.
The most horrifying and personal of Caravaggio’s biblical images. Probably the last thing he painted, while he was in Naples in 1610, staying with his patroness Costanza Colonna. It's key to the denouement of A NAME IN BLOOD. Naples, Portrait, Contemporary Art, Marcel Duchamp, Rees
The most horrifying and personal of Caravaggio’s biblical images. Probably the last thing he painted, while he was in Naples in 1610, staying with his patroness Costanza Colonna. It's key to the denouement of A NAME IN BLOOD.
The Flagellation of Christ is approached down a long gallery through other smaller galleries at the Capodimonte in Naples. Though you pass by masterpieces by Raphael et al, you have eyes only for this shocking, shadowy work. No artist can make everything else in a gallery seem like rubbish the way Caravaggio can. The way Caravaggio comes to paint this is particularly dramatic in A NAME IN BLOOD and involves a murder he witnesses in an alley. Christ, Reggio, Flagellation, Cristo, Art World
The Flagellation of Christ is approached down a long gallery through other smaller galleries at the Capodimonte in Naples. Though you pass by masterpieces by Raphael et al, you have eyes only for this shocking, shadowy work. No artist can make everything else in a gallery seem like rubbish the way Caravaggio can. The way Caravaggio comes to paint this is particularly dramatic in A NAME IN BLOOD and involves a murder he witnesses in an alley.
The nasty, grasping little eyes of Pope Paul V truly raise the hairs on the back of your neck when you’re before this painting (which is in a private collection). Caravaggio was no flatterer. He and his nephew are major characters in A NAME IN BLOOD. Pope, Paul, Greats, Neck, Chronology
The nasty, grasping little eyes of Pope Paul V truly raise the hairs on the back of your neck when you’re before this painting (which is in a private collection). Caravaggio was no flatterer. He and his nephew are major characters in A NAME IN BLOOD.
This painting first made me fall in love with Caravaggio and write A NAME IN BLOOD. I was alone with it in the room where it’s housed in a Madrid museum. The saint,  who’s about to meet her death, seemed to watch me. I couldn’t leave. It was as though I was abandoning her to her fate. Serial Killers, Madrid, Museums, Saints, People, Alexandria, Classic
This painting first made me fall in love with Caravaggio and write A NAME IN BLOOD. I was alone with it in the room where it’s housed in a Madrid museum. The saint, who’s about to meet her death, seemed to watch me. I couldn’t leave. It was as though I was abandoning her to her fate.
A detail from Caravaggio's Madonna of the Serpent. This is the face of Caravaggio's model and, I believe, lover Lena Antognetti. Frankly I fell in love with her and she was one of the inspirations for my novel A Name in Blood. Baroque, Italian Art, Toile, Madonna
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A detail from Caravaggio's Madonna of the Serpent. This is the face of Caravaggio's model and, I believe, lover Lena Antognetti. Frankly I fell in love with her and she was one of the inspirations for my novel A Name in Blood.