Caravaggio: Performing Artist in New York

About Caravaggio

Caravaggio, the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi, shaped early Baroque art with hard-edged realism and stark, directional light. Trained in Lombardy and formed in the competitive world of Rome, he favored working from live models and ordinary bodies rather than ideal types. At The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, his presence is felt through focused study presentations such as *Caravaggio's “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” in Focus*. The work’s pictorial drama comes less from ornament than from observation, where illumination becomes a kind of argument.