How Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting.

The CULTURE PAGES Three revolutionary works still speakto us of doubt, inspiration, and grace AGAIN AND AGAIN during thispandemic, unable to actuallysee art in person, I have time-traveledwithin myself forsustenance--with the help of the internet,of course. Artists had spent theprevious 50 years revering Raphael, Leonardo,and Michelangelo, so much thatersatz Renaissance paintings had becomea cottage industry among worshipfulpainters and princes wanting to showthey had the same taste as popes andpotentates--much like current monkey-see-monkey-docollectors of contemporaryart. GLO:nyo/28sep20:57n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): The Calling ofSaint Matthew (1599--1600), The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew(1599--1600), and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew(1602). gl Caravaggio would be dead within tenyears, but he changed art history. [Extracted from the article]