"But what it was for art (and not just for art, as" l'art pour l'art "not yet was ongoing) Caravaggio's revolutionary load? Are there aesthetic statements of the painter? Yes, in the process among artists of his group and opositories of 1603. To a question, responded with this creed Caravaggio painting elemental: "My way to see a gentleman painter is someone who can paint well and imitate well natural things. "A statement that is so simple, does not seem to need explanation. But if you think about it, the culture in which Caravaggio lived and worked was the opposite of" natural "was, however, artificial and decadent, or blessed, and had no desire at all to be painted "naturally", but "devout" or "noble" noble themes, noble actions sacred and profane, according to an inventive step which could range from the grim of Counter and the whim of the last Mannerist. "
(...)" When you read Ballori Caravaggio, who urged him to study the statues of Phidias and glycone, answered them reaching out "to a crowd of men indicating that nature had provided him with enough teachers and to give authority to his words, called a Gypsy by chance passing in the street, carried it home, the portrayed in the act of predicting what is coming ...", beyond the story, known since antiquity, is presented in a similr in the biography of Courbet, and it is clear that Caravaggio has come to create the "antitema." the "tranche de vie" in the modern sense. "
De Roberto Longhi," Caravaggio e la sua cerchia to Milan. "
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