Boys wearing wings
Nicholas Penny, 15 March 1984
Circa 1600: A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting
by S.J. Freedberg.
Harvard, 125 pp., £21.25, January 1983,0 674 13156 8 Show More
by S.J. Freedberg.
Harvard, 125 pp., £21.25, January 1983,
“... that he dared produce work which was considered too indecorous for exhibition. Hibbard and Freedberg do not exaggerate the modernity of Caravaggio’s realism nor the popular character of his art. Nevertheless Caravaggio, as they represent him, seems to be a typical artist of the 1970s: compulsively autobiographical, obsessed with violence and with his ... ”
