CARAVAGGIO, FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT

We still know very little about the first modern artist Michelangelo Merisi from the Lombardian village Caravaggio. It was only at the beginning of the 20th century that serious research began with the result that about 50 works have been really identified as his own. Jean-Michel Meurice, a painter himself, will trace Caravaggio ́s short lived career in situ, film about 30 works in museums, monasteries and churches in Rome, Paris, Malta and on Sicily and use high resolution ektachromes for others to make us understand that Caravaggio ́s output was all about drama. A couple of people in the foreground, virtually no background, just the corner of a window, a frozen moment, a shadow …