Carravaggio
I ended up watching a program about who killed Caravaggio on BBC4. This is the sort of program I worry about, if the BBC decides to save money. Having been introduced to the works of Caravaggio by an artist friend, I feel that this is the program, I should watch, to make sure I am less of an ignorant Philistine.
According to Caravaggio‘s entry in Wikipedia, today is the four hundredth anniversary of his death.
The Anonymous Widower 
There is nothing wrong with being an ignorant Philistine, I am one. I know very little about art, I guess there are only half a dozen artists whose work I would recognise, and I probably know the names of only a dozen or so pictures. Most of which are impressionist. I know some strange facts such as why Mary always wears blue in Medieval religious painting, and why people have halos in same.
And probably know even less about classical music!
We all have our own fields of knowledge, fields which interest us. In my case, I was always keen to expand my knowledge in and around those fields – I learnt Latin to be able to read primary source documents because of my interest in Medieval history.
Comment by Liz P | July 18, 2010 |