Episode 60: Caravaggio's The Crucifixion of St. Andrew (1607)
“What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting.”
Light and dark. Frozen action. Angels with dirty faces. Infamously both a hothead punk and one of the most extraordinarily potent and subtle painters in the canon, Caravaggio is nothing if not a man of contrasts.
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Music Used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Charles Daab, “Irish and Scotch melodies (take 2)”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Highway 430,” “Angel Tooth,” “Di Breun,” “Rainy Day Drone,” “No Smoking,” “Cornicob,” “Tarte Tatin,” “Vernouillet,” “Thread of Clouds,” “Set the Tip Jar,” “Homin Brer”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
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