Caravaggio & His Followers in Rome

http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2011/07/28/caravaggio/

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David Balzer reviews Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome on view at the National Gallery of Canada through September 11, 2011.

Balzer notes: "What emerges above all in 'Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome' is [the curators'] desire for us to read the artist as revolutionarily authentic, down-to-earth, experiential. In other words, realist. ...placing Caravaggio next to his followers... makes us appreciate details of the master's formal innovations, his attention to flesh, to intimacy."

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