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Presentation outline:

Filmed audio visual interview with script.

Interview to be conducted by (Host Student) in role as Karel van Mander (1548-1606), the first art historian in the Netherlands. He wrote perceptively about Caravaggio. Van Mander admired the artist for his talent and the fact that he came from humble beginnings. He thought Caravaggio owed the realism of his paintings to a close study of nature and understanding the character of his subjects. But van Mander also understood Caravaggio was self-destructive which had an effect on his art: //He does not study his art constantly, so that after two weeks of work he will sally forth for two months together with his rapier at his side and his servant-boy after him, going from one tennis court to another, always ready to argue or fight, so that he is impossible to get along with. This is totally foreign to art; for Mars and Minerva have never been good friends.//

In the interview Caravaggio will display some of his temperament while discussing his work and his patrons. He will also refer to the innovative approaches he used to dramatize popular religious stories. During the interview, several players will join the panel in role as: the tax collector from //The Calling of St Matthew// (1599-1600) and the treasurer for the Pope, who commissioned //Conversion of St Paul// (1601). They will talk ironically about light, sight and insight.

Source: Laurie Schneider Adams//,// //Art Across Time,// Fourth Edition, Volume II, 2010, p. 648-50.