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| | CDC - Vol. 9, No. 12 Cover, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). Basket of Fruit (1596) |
 | | His father, an architect and majordomo to the Marquis of Caravaggio, died of the plague when the artist was still young, leaving him under the protection of the art-loving marquis. |
 | | Reduced to it by circumstance, Caravaggio elevated the genre to new heights, creating a European tradition that explored the “secret lives of objects” (5). |
 | | In our world, as in Caravaggio’s, where light and darkness, beauty and horror, engagement and danger are constantly at play, survival depends on keeping the elements of nature in balance, constantly tracking their course, monitoring their moves, and checking their excesses. |
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