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Caravaggio - The Soul and the Blood movie reviews

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  Caravaggio - The Soul and the Blood

  Sunday, May 13, 2018 1:59:30 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  The documentary offered no new insights and furnished almost no context to illustrate the world in which Caravaggio moved. It’s just a retelling of one of the dominant narratives of western art: tortured genius paints religious subjects using prostitutes and patrons as models. But with a whole bunch of navel-gazing monologues set over boring art-y video montages of modern character in modern settings, attempting to illustrate the documentary’s main thesis... “Caravaggio’s chiaruscuro is a reflection of his own lightness/darkness”. Yawn. Lots of beautiful photography of actual paintings and one or two brief, but interesting, references to his process gives it two stars.

• Caravaggio - The Soul and the Blood

  Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:23:42 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  Informative and well narrated. I personally did not like the contemporary " inserts". The opening scene was unnecessary and horrific. The details and history of the paintings and artist are what I went to see. The acted rest was redundant.