EXPORTING CARAVAGGIO. THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAINT ANDREW

Marking a crucial turning point in Caravaggio's life and artistic development, the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew exemplifies the artis t's famous tenebristic style, developed during his rise to fame in Rome, and simultaneously signals a new, grittier realism in his w ork. Inspired both by a Spanish patron and by the urban topography of Naples, a city three times the size of Rome in Caravaggio's da y, the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew became a mobile portent of Caravaggio's stylistic revolution when the viceroy brought it with him to Vall...[Read more]