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UST Hosts Lecture on Caravaggio’s Art, Life
10/27/2010
 The Crossroads Cultural Center-Houston, the Consulate General of Italy and the University of St. Thomas will host a lecture on Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , one of the most important and mysterious painters of the human condition. “Caravaggio – Art & Life,” will be held at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 12 on the University of St. Thomas campus, Cullen Hall, 4001 Mt. Vernon.
Speakers will include Dr. Dominic Aquila, University of St. Thomas Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Henry Artis, a New York painter, sculptor and installation artist. The lecture will explore the art and life of Caravaggio, showing why he is considered one of the greatest witnesses of the mystery of Christ.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1571 –1610 was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. He took his name, Caravaggio from the village where he was born.
“Having spent his brief, tragic and turbulent life painting miracles, he managed, in the process, to create one - the miracle of art, the miracle of the way in which some paint, a few brushes, a square of canvas, together with that most essential ingredient, genius, can produce something stronger than time and age, more powerful than death,” writes Francine Prose.
He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600 with the success of his first public commissions, the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and Calling of Saint Matthew. In 1606, he killed a young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head. In Malta in 1608 he was involved in another brawl, and yet another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. By the next year, after a relatively brief career, he was dead.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact 713-832-2263 or houston@crossroadsculturalcenter.org.
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