| | Event: | SSS-01 Caravaggio | | Dates: | 1/30 | | Time: | 1:00 to 3:00 | | Category: | Spring2025-SingleSession | | Location: | Zoom Teleconference | | Presenter: | Rhea Higgins, Art History Professor, Univ. of Hartford, Wesleyan Institute of Life Long Learning | The paintings of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized late Italian Renaissance art styles beginning in 1606, revealing physical and emotional human states never expressed so vividly before. His Biblical scenes expressed a new kind of realism, often featuring violent struggles, torture and death, which, combined with dramatic lighting or "tenebrism"- transfixing subjects in shafts of light and shadows, was often shocking, even ugly, but always real and intensely human. This unique artistic combination was revolutionary and had a profound formative influence on painting almost immediately in early Baroque art. Our study will include in detail two of his most famous works: The Calling of Saint Matthew and The Conversion of Saint Paul.
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