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Caravaggio
Art has been called a visual dialogue, for though the object itself is mute, it expresses its creator's intention just as surely as if he were speaking to us. For there to be a dialogue, however, our active participation is required. If we cannot literally talk to a work of art, we can learn how to respond to it and que ....
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.... for a number of historically significant paintings which set a new trend among relationships between painters and their patrons. Some of his paintings include the Calling of Saint Mathew, Bacchus, David with the Head of Goliath, and Judith and Holoferne. His new use of naturalism in his work set the new trend of genre painting, a trend some considered vulgar and grotesque for its realistic tendencies. For the purpose of this essay, Death of the Virgin will be considered, for in it Caravaggio, painting in the genre style, depicts the Madonna as a prostitute or as his contemporar ....
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