Apr 03 2007
Faith in Art
This piece by Caravaggio is David Victorious Over Goliath and currently hangs in the Prado in Madrid. Caravaggio was one of the original Baroque “painters of light” — long before Thomas Kincaid. His works typically make strong use of light and shadow.
He was a pretty wild individual, and may have killed two or three men in brawls. He fled Rome for Naples and Malta with a price on his head and died under mysterious circumstances after he was pardoned for his crimes.
