Art Lecture with Thomas Germano - The Last Caravaggio

In May of 1610, Caravaggio (1571/3-1610) was in Naples, Italy working on the last picture he'd ever paint. By July he was wounded in a knife fight, disfigured beyond recognition, and dead after a mysterious boat ride in route to a planned papal pardon for the murder the artist committed in Rome four years earlier.  During the artist’s tumultuous and transient final years, Caravaggio made some of his most dramatic and unique paintings.

'The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula,' 1610 confronts us with graphic violence at an uncomfortably close range, the interplay of guilty and innocent hands, and a self-portrait as a helpless observer.  This visual lecture by Thomas Germano will carefully examine the last four years of Caravaggio’s tragic life, from his flight from Rome to exile in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, and his death in Porto Ercole in 1610.

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