Word: rembrandt
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...this is deadwood and of interest mainly to specialists. Moreover, the climactic efforts of Caravaggio's career, like the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Malta (which must be the most sublimely concrete work of the tragic imagination painted between the death of Michelangelo and the maturity of Rembrandt), are not here. So it is best to treat the Met's show as a preparation for pilgrimage and to ignore the blatant copies, pastiches and restored wrecks, such as The Magdalen in Ecstasy, The Toothpuller and The Martyrdom of St. Ursula, with which its closing rooms are unfortunately padded...
Today, Caravaggio almost ranks with Rembrandt and Velasquez as the most popular of all 17th century artists. Mythmaking has something to do with this. We have a proto-Marxist Caravaggio, the painter of common people with dirty feet and ragged sleeves. There is also a homosexual Caravaggio, moved into the spotlight during the '70s by gay liberation: the painter of overripe, peachy bits of rough trade, with yearning mouths and hair like black ice cream. Most of all, there is Caravaggio the avant-gardist...
Works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Degas, Durer, Da Vinci, Holbem , Redon, Cellini, Seural, and Picasso are also included in the show...
...makes no sense without its spiritual spine, the Bible. So say British Critic Bruce Bernard and Art Historian Sir Lawrence Gowing in The Bible and Its Painters (Macmillan; 300 pages; $24.95), an opinionated and amply illustrated survey of biblical themes in more than 200 paintings produced over six centuries. Rembrandt is, in Gowing's words, "the hero of this book" because he surpassed all artists in getting to the heart of the biblical vision: his works in this volume reach from the famous portrayal of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac to a shadowy ascension of Jesus into heaven...
...husband until she finally murdered him. Fawcett was up to the acting demands of the part, but transforming the blond beauty into a convincingly battered wife was no easy task. "Her features are absolutely perfect," observes Makeup Artist Fred Blau. "It's like putting your foot through a Rembrandt." To make the star considerably less perfect, Blau darkened her eyes, created bruises on her cheeks, neck and arms, and added false, crooked teeth "to take away from her Pepsodent smile." The temporarily fallen angel had no regrets, however. Says Fawcett: "It would be depressing to go through life with...