Caravaggio's masterpiece re-read according to the original location in the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella
The Deposition of Christ in the tomb of Caravaggio is one of the most celebrated works of the Vatican Museums, was copied in the nineteenth century mosaic on the altar of the sacristy of the Basilica. Among the first public pictures of the artist, is part of that production maturity that tells the dramatic episodes of religion, through forms of extraordinary impact evocative, deeply renewing the traditional iconography of the fact sacred. It is a real mystery play wrapped in a mysterious silence in which the light, which is more than natural, with bursts from their strength and investigates anxious sculptural bodies of the actors involved in simple gestures and hieratic, clocked by a rhythm arcane. The work is imbued with high moral tension full of autobiographical references that art history has not failed to detect. The painting is intended to basics, not the environment, the garden - some rocks and a shrub - that 's event occurs. Rare flashes evoke the place, wherever possible, buried in shadow. Only the slab of stone on which the group has a role equal to the characters it supports. The stone and the movements of the actors are locked in bold foreshortening, the evidence of plastic bodies and a few things emerge from the darkness, the astonishing fact of classical simplicity and solemnity flows from reality itself when this is shown by the light. Here is everything Caravaggio: the man with the troubled life and the painter.
The history and art criticism, however, not enough to do justice to such a framework because it is something that moves further and that, to be perceived, needs a physical condition and different spatial and also of a different visual sensitivity. To trap this excess ... continue to read the article on the blog MARANATHA.IT
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