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	Caravaggio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Caravaggio appears to have stayed in the Milan-Caravaggio area after his apprenticeship ended, but it is possible that he visited Venice and saw the works of Giorgione, whom he was later accused of aping, as well as those of his teacher’s master, Titian.
		His technique continued to evolve — Saint Ursula is caught in a moment of highest action and drama, as the arrow fired by the king of the Huns strikes her in the breast, unlike earlier paintings which had all the immobility of the posed models.
		Caravaggio “put the oscuro (shade) into chiaroscuro.” Chiaroscuro had existed well before he came on the scene, but it was Caravaggio who made the technique definitive, darkening the shadows and transfixing the subject in a blinding shaft of light.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caravaggio (2625 words)

	Death of John
		The Beheading of John the Baptist, Matthaeus Merrian the Elder, 1625-30.
		The Beheading of John the Baptist, Rembrandt, 1640.
		John the Baptist Beheaded, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1851-60.
	www.textweek.com /art/death_of_john.htm (498 words)

	Saints of June 24
		Saint Altinus, pulled down a pagan temple, and suffered the consequence of death by the sword.
		Saint Alban say only that the protomartyr put on the cloak (amphibalus) of the priest, was arrested in his stead, and was martyred.
		Saint Henry was a Benedictine monk and the headmaster of Saint-Germain abbey school at Auxerre.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0624.htm (2151 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| The complete Caravaggio part two
		Caravaggio won the acclaim of the mob, the lowlifes who knew nothing about art: and that, of course, is why he was in such demand with religious orders and confraternities.
		Caravaggio's innovative portrayal of light is what makes the fruit so luscious as it reflects in each individual grape, just as it does in the vase in his closely related Boy Bitten by a Lizard (click here to see the work) in London's National Gallery.
		Caravaggio portrays Medusa's face frozen in the reflective shield, which the hero Perseus uses to avoid her petrifying stare, at the moment of her decapitation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1415929,00.html (3157 words)

	Caravaggio: The Final Years - National Gallery, London WC2, Until 22 May, 2005 reviewed by Alex Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Caravaggio was obsessed with the violence of life and painted the violence of sensation as the sensation of violence.
		Caravaggio’s genius is to give the sensation of weight to the severed head: the human head is very heavy and Caravaggio paints that heaviness, allowing us actually to feel the sheer weight of the giant’s severed head.
		Caravaggio has stood the usual tradition on its head and instead of using a baby as a symbol of pretty innocence has chosen to show us a cherub which symbolises depravity, excess and decay: in its inversion it is intriguingly disturbing, even repellent, provoking a macabre and rather shameful sexual fascination.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2005/Jan-Jun05/caravaggio.htm (673 words)

	St. John the Baptist - Olga's Gallery
		John proclaimed: "Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is upon you!' And people from jerusalem, Judaea, and the Jordan valley hurried to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
		John was imprisoned for censuring the incestuous marriage between Herod Antipas and Herodias, the wife of his brother.
		John the Baptist, Madonna and Child Enthroned with St. John the Baptist, St. Victor, St. Bernard and St. Zenobius ("Altarpiece of the Otto di Pratica").
	www.abcgallery.com /saints/john.html (676 words)

	A dark and complex beauty Caravaggio: The Final Years at the National Gallery
		Caravaggio paints the tying of Jesus to the column prior to the whipping.
		The traditional symbols of the saint are rendered merely as a shepherd’s staff and a ram, and the saint is surrounded by a corona of ivy.
		Caravaggio collapsed with a fever, and died on the July 18, 1610.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/may2005/cara-m30.shtml (2442 words)

	TVM 1st Floor: 17th C Italian and Spanish Baroque - Caravaggio
		Caravaggio was the bastard son of Fermo Merisi, steward and architect for Francesco Sforzao, the Marquis of Caravaggio.
		Caravaggio painted plain working men, prostitutes, and young males off the streets; those are characters that dignified people should not be associated with, but they are people Caravaggio felt close to.
		Caravaggio may have known that a pardon was close when he again moved north to Naples in October 1609.
	www.tigtail.org /TIG/M_View/TVM/X1/f.Baroque/b.italian/caravaggio/caravaggio.html (2037 words)

	TheDogZone.com: Maltese Cross Pictures
		Caravaggio's portrait of this old man in a slightly too large suit of armour posing next to his short-haired and knowing page boy is in the Louvre and it is a sensitive and affecting work, yet a bit wicked, too.
		Caravaggio was so "crazy", say the early accounts, that he ran after the boat through coastal marshes, caught a fever, and died.
		Caravaggio, despite it all, was a kind of saint; a martyr suffering for the barefoot.
	www.the-dog-zone.com /Maltese-Breeders-In-Ny/Maltese-Cross-Pictures.htm (2453 words)

	Beheading of Saint John the Baptist by CARAVAGGIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is the most important painting that Caravaggio made in Malta.
		This is one of Caravaggio's most extraordinary creations, for many it is his greatest masterpiece.
		The technical means adhere to the deliberate, programmatic limitation to which Caravaggio adapts them; but amid these soft tones, these dark colours, is an impressive sense of drawing that the artist does not give up, and that is visible even through the synoptic glints of light of his late works.
	www.wga.hu /html/c/caravagg/10/62behead.html (208 words)

	Workshop Thumbnail View \| TrekEarth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Johns Co-Cathedral was built between 1573 and 1578, it was designed by the maltese military architect Gerolamo Cassar who has designed several of the more prominent buildings in Valetta.
		Johns was originally the regular church of the Hospitalers (the Knights of Saint John) but grew to equal prominence with the archbishop's cathedral at Mdina.
		Johns is also the home of a small art collection by the famous painter Caravaggio (1571-1610), one of his most famous paintings "Beheading of Saint John the Baptist" (1608) can be found here as well as "Jerome III" (1607-1608).
	www.trekearth.com /workshops/21188 (434 words)

	J.-E Berger Foundation: Caravaggio: a most Romantic Destiny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Caravaggio's life during the 17th century is certainly among the most adventurous ever led by the world's great creators.
		Caravaggio was totally destitute; rumor has it that he did portraits of the innkeepers to eke out a livelihood.
		For two centuries, Caravaggio's work lay forgotten, and it was not until the Milan exhibition of 1951, that his oeuvre went on display to a public at last become aware of the depth of artistry involved.
	www.bergerfoundation.ch /Home/high_caravage.html (2964 words)

	John the Baptist
		Domenico Ghirlandaio: The Birth of John the Baptist
		Masolino: Saint Jerome with Saint John the Baptist
		Geergen Tot SintJans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness
	www.stcdio.org /parishes/sfassisi/calander/john_the_baptist.htm (701 words)

	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
		Saint Francis of Assisi in ecstasy - c.1596
		Saint Matthew and the Angel - c.1602 [destroyed - 1945]
		Saint John the Baptist at the source - c.1608-1609 (attributed)
	www.phespirit.info /pictures/caravaggio (200 words)

	Malta Visitor Guide
		The Church of St. John the Baptist was built between 1573 and 1577 by a Maltese engineer, Girolamo Cassar.
		Johns is also the home of a small art collection by the famous painter Caravaggio (1571-1610).
		St. John's was originally the regular church of the Hospitalers (the Knights of Saint John), but grew to equal prominence with the archbishop's cathedral at Mdina.
	www.carnaval.com /malta (4056 words)

	Out of Lascaux: Highlights: 11/30/02
		He painted Saint Jerome with dirty feet, unheard of at a time when saints were revered for their purity and and piety.
		Caravaggio was in Malta in 1608-1609 because he had to flee Rome after killing a man in a brawl.
		I think that the man holding John is about to use the smaller knife to cut off the hair at the back of the neck pior to the execution being performed with the sword.
	www.ladysmaidjewels.com /MTblog/archives/000144.html (1185 words)

	Beheading of St John the Baptist, Valletta, Malta - lastminute.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The painting depicts the moment in Biblical history where St John is beheaded by King Herod to satisfy the blood lust of the seductive dancer, Salome.
		Caravaggio went to Malta to avoid the death penalty that had been inflicted on him after committing a murder in Rome and, with the bloodless body of Saint John, he seems to be portraying his victim's and, at the same time, his own end.
		It was built by the Knights of St John immediately after the Great Siege of 1565, during which the vastly outnumbered knights turned back the might of the hitherto invincible Ottoman Empire and thus arguably saved Western Europe.
	www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Europe/Malta/Valletta/WOW-Attraction-97837.html (461 words)

	Caravaggio and his Followers \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Caravaggio pushed the figures up against the picture plane and used light to enhance the dramatic impact and give the figures a quality of immediacy.
		As a contemporary critic noted, "a characteristic of this school [of painting] is to use a focused light source from high up, without reflections, as though in a room with a [single] window and the walls painted fl.
		This new approach to painting was sometimes at odds with the function of the altarpieces as the focus of devotional practice.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm (694 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY
		— Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John (1518, 154x101cm) _ One is struck by the extraordinary originality of this composition, constructed on an X-shaped scheme which may be discerned beneath the violent emotional expressiveness of the three protagonists.
		Saint Catherine is the portrait of Lucrezia, the wife of the artist.
		— Virgin with Four Saints (1530, 308x208cm) _ The saints are: Fedele (with the sword), Catherine of Alexandria, Giovanni Gualberto and Bernardo degli Uberti.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jul/art0716.html (12436 words)

	Malta Power
		Caravaggio's life is in his paintings and seems to have never, physically, strayed far away from them.
		John Higgins did his best to banish the memory of his Malta Cup colla...
		John Higgins did his best to banish the memory of his Malta Cup collapse a...
	archive.wn.com /2005/02/17/1400/maltapower (478 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Podium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted some of the greatest works of his career for the Knights of St John of Malta.
		Whatever drove the artist to Malta, Caravaggio's good fortune there was initially great; his first year was probably even better that he had expected.
		Caravaggio's Maltese period is largely concerned with chivalry, that is, his ambition for knighthood.
	comment.independent.co.uk /podium/article12511.ece (384 words)

	John the baptist - St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church - Carpathian style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cub Scout Pack 648, chartered to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Brunswick, is ready to accept new members from boys in Grades 1-5.
		The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a medieval church in Anglican Diocese of Coventry.
		John the Baptist in Trullo — It was to the convent of St. John the Baptist in Trullo, with the elegant small church, that the nuns of the Pammakaristos
	seekwindow.com /swd/john-the-baptist.html (239 words)

	Estonian Art 2' 2002
		Remember the blood on the 'murder weapon', the knife used to cut off St John's head, trickling down to the floor and finally forming the author's signature.
		Caravaggio has in fact quite a few traumatic, impossible, suicidal self-portraits, symbolic suicides.
		The glance of a seemingly petrified woman in a gloomy room is fixed on the axe on the floor.
	www.einst.ee /Ea/picture/soans.html (2008 words)

	Telegraph \| Travel \| Valletta: Weekending
		The Knights of Saint John created Valletta in 1566, completing the massive defences in just five years.
		The Co-Cathedral of Saint John is the best place to get an idea of what the Knights of St John were all about.
		The lugubrious baroque interior has eight elaborately carved chapels each sponsored by one of the national divisions of Knights, while the main floor of the temple is paved entirely with inlaid marble slabs, many of them macabre, which are the tombs of fallen Knights.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2003/04/29/etvalletta26.xml (831 words)

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		To further honor this great saint, I am including here the devotion to the Crucified Lord that is attributed to him, the Seven Prayers of Saint Gregory, which was a staple in medieval books of hours.
		Long before there was Catholic Charities, there were the Saint Vincent de Paul Societies, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and burying the dead.
		In the pontificate of Pope John XXIII, one of the Vatican dicasteries issued a letter addressed to the bishops of the US instructing them to not ordain homosexual men, because it was considered imprudent to have homosexual men in a situation in which they would be in contact with young boys on a disproportionate basis.
	rectaratio.blogspot.com /2005_08_28_rectaratio_archive.html (7708 words)

	Monastery E-News September 9a, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But Pope John Paul made it emphatically clear that she was a true MARTYR, not because the reason of the killers was “odium of the Faith,” but because Edith herself had offered her life for her own people.
		To get to John the Baptizer: in the three accounts of the death of John, the motive for ordering him killed was directly the evil wish of Herodias, and the weak will of the king.
		But with Pope John Paul’s clear and clean re-definition of Martyrdom as to the purpose and intention of the one put to death, it was only a matter of liturgical precision to re-name this feast.
	www.trappist.net /newweb/enews_09_09a_05.html (2302 words)

	basket - basket gift - caravaggio basket of fruit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michelangelo Merisi, called later Caravaggio, was born in either Milan, or a town of Caravaggio...
		Bacchus (1596-97) by Caravaggio Basket of Fruit (1598-99) by Caravaggio Beheading of Saint John the Baptist by...
		the physical particularity â” one aspect of his realism â” for which Caravaggio was to become renowned: the fruit-basket-boyâs produce has been analysed by a professor of horticulture, who was...
	www.wmwebarts.com /4/basket/caravaggio-basket-of-fruit.html (658 words)

	Wholesale reproduction of oil painting of old master on canvas
		Beheading of St John the Baptist agf -- SANO di Pietro
		Bridget Holmes, a Nonagenarian Housemaid A -- RILEY, John
		Brook Watson and the Shark sdf -- COPLEY, John Singleton
	www.intofineart.com /htmlindexopus/directory-b003.html (1407 words)

	Rabbit Beheading The Bean - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Today, the Church commemorates the beheading of Saint John the Baptist, the...
		the sharpness of their blades by beheading the nearest handy native...
		the request of friends who had not yet seen it and after it was over one of them told me I should have warned her about the beheading...
	rabbit.fmqg.com /index.php?k=rabbit-beheading-the-bean (1018 words)

	BBC 2 in Malta for documentary about Caravaggio
		The Italian painter Caravaggio (1573 – 1610), who was probably the most revolutionary artist of his time, came to Malta in 1607/08 as he was accused of murder and fled to the island.
		The documentary is directed by Carl Hindmarch, who produced and directed several documentaries for British TV stations, ‘Pump up the Volume’ about the history of House Music and ‘Position Impossible’ about the Kama Sutra, amongst others.
		The filming took place at the St. John’s Co – Cathedral in Valletta, where Schama introduced Caravaggio’s overwhelming painting ‘Beheading of Saint John the Baptist’ to his viewers; other locations included St. Elmo, St. Angelo, Dingli Cliffs and Vittoriosa.
	www.actinghouseproductions.com /film_tv/press/caravaggio.html (293 words)

	Depraved Librarian: 2005-03-20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bruised and footsore, I am back from a long weekend in London where the weather was a balmy 60s, hyacinths, crocuses and daffofils were in bloom and everyone walked around in shirtsleeves.
		The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610 (Banca Intesa)
		John the Baptist in the Wilderness on the left,
	depravedlibrarian.blogspot.com /2005_03_20_depravedlibrarian_archive.html (2665 words)

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