Caravaggio, the Inquisition, and the darkness that never left his canvases, or Italy
He sometimes looked to get his neck broken. Caravaggio painted in a Rome of spies, burnings, and the Inquisition, where a young crowd of painters and fighters lived by one motto: nec spe nec metu, without hope or fear. Why was a whole generation drawn to darkness, and why does his work still feel so alive?
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