Oh god, Kingz: 'The Bounty of Caravaggio's Glorious Exile'

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I wish I could just fly to Naples right now. The damn queer drama queen just had to murder some poor bastard to merely get out of fooking Rome - and out of the annoyances of Michelangelo and those other rockstars - to seriously get to work. He could have simply taken a holiday. Why the hell do they always have to take the hard path? Stupid bitch.

The Bounty of Caravaggio's Glorious Exile

The New York Times, December 12, 2004

ow many pictures does it take to make a memorable exhibition? Fifty? A hundred? How about 18? That's the number of paintings by Caravaggio that people are lining up to see in Naples in an exhibition that is something of a landmark event. (There is also a coda, five copies of lost works and five recently proposed attributions, though none are convincing.) The reason for the success of this magnificent show has less to do with numbers than with the quality of the works and the period that they document: the last four years of Caravaggio's life, spent peripatetically outside Rome, where he had made a name for himself before he died at 39 of malaria.

[Roderick]

That's what you're a threatrical bastard for.

[manny_c44]

I thought he died after he got stabbed in a street fight?...I guess my old art history book was slightly off.

It would be nice to go there though.