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Caravaggio was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in July 2008. The DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes special features such as the trailer, a gallery of production designs and storyboards, feature commentary by Gabriel Berestain, an interview with Christopher Hobbs titled Italy of the Memory , and interviews with Tilda ...
Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; / ˌ k ær ə ˈ v æ dʒ i oʊ /, US: /-ˈ v ɑː dʒ (i) oʊ /; Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da (k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 [1] – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
Throughout Derek Jarman's film Caravaggio (1986 film), many of Caravaggio's paintings are recreated in tableau vivant to explore their relationship to his life. The 1991 film My Own Private Idaho presents its sex scenes using the effect. The 2013 film, A Field in England, [15] makes use of the effect to add to the general occult look of the film.
Jarman's work broke new ground in creating and expanding the fledgling form of 'the pop video' in England (eg. using his father's WWII archival footage (one of the first people to use a color home movie camera which included the director as a toddler) on the early version of Wang Chung's "Dance Hall Days"), and in gay rights activism. [29]
[7] Despite the success he was beginning to enjoy among art lovers, as evidenced by the cardinal's patronage, Caravaggio had not yet received any official commissions and had not produced any works with a religious theme: the Saint Matthew series was a novelty for him. The paintings in the Contarelli chapel were his first public commission.
Whether or not the dating is accurate, the work is believed to have originated from Caravaggio's late Roman period, [6] which ended with the painter's exile to Malta in 1606. [7] That Saint Jerome Writing is the work of Caravaggio is sometimes brought into question, as it was attributed to Jusepe de Ribera in the Borghese inventories from 1700 ...
The subject had been a popular one ever since the 13th century: Giotto treated it about 1290, and Giovanni Bellini painted a famous version about 1480–85. Caravaggio's version is much more intimate and marks a sharp change of key: the saint, who has the features of Del Monte, seems to sink back peacefully into the arms of a boy (who bears a ...
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi) was born in Milan, where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the marquess of Caravaggio, a town 35 km (22 mi) to the east of Milan and south of Bergamo. [7]