Caravaggio's Legacy Closes This Weekend in Los Angeles
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By Tahlib
CALIFORNIA---Closing this Sunday is "Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the largest art museum in the western United States. The exhibition, made up of 56 works in all, includes a record eight works by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), one of the most popular artists of the past, rivaling in fame both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. The stories of Caravaggio's life are legend, more myth than history, describing traits of personality, including passion and brutality, that came to describe the unique qualities of his work. Caravaggio himself, covers the evolution of his style. Caravaggio's legacy is expressed in work by about twenty artists from Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands who carried into the late 17th century the strangeness, beauty and raw emotion of his work.
By Tahlib
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| "John the Baptist (John in the Wilderness)" (1604) |
