Thursday, 11/8/2018, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. PST
Title Unbelievable: Reflections on Caravaggio’s Religious Art
Description Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) painted in a new way that art historians are still working to describe adequately — visually, technically, and historically — but which, as the seventeenth-century painter and art writer Joachim von Sandrart memorably put it, made “most other pictures appear to be composed of colored paper.” Both Caravaggio’s contemporaries and modern scholars have understood the artist’s method…