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From: bert
Category: Art
Date: 01 March 2005
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/caravaggio/default.htm
First they're great to look at.
Other points:
1: They're not very many paintings and lots of people looking at them. This is a good thing.
2: The galleries are very dark, so all the viewers are seen in chiaroscuro, which is funny.
3: The flagellation of Christ is a highlight of the show.
4: In some of the big paintings the darkness, darker than many churches where they were first shown, combined with the lights, makes the pictures reflect badly.
5:They get all abstract when there is little light in the picture and few bits lit up.
6: These are beautiful paintings.
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