Caravaggio: His life and style in three paintings | National Gallery
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2016
- Curator of Later Italian, Spanish, and French 17th-century Paintings, Letizia Treves, guides you through the tumultuous life of Caravaggio. She looks at how his innovative style developed from a focus on nature and expression in his early works to the sophistication of his mature works.
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Paintings and timestamps mentioned in this video:
0:46 Introduction to Caravaggio's life
4:24 Boy bitten by Lizard, about 1594-5
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10:42 The Supper at Emmaus, 1601
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20:55 Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist, about 1609-10
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I would listen to this woman talk about art anytime. She's wonderful.
This is a perfect example of how You Tube can be an absolute treasure. Thanks for sharing this informative video.
Jimmy King 1
for all its fault, youtube somehow sometimes manages to carry culture indeed.
UA-cam is not a sentient conscious being lol, people make it whatever it is.
heyyy... piano cat's kinda cool...
Terrific. Trying to get a mass of information on Caravaggio is a nightmare. You just continue to walk into brick walls. Just wish we new MORE. A genius with a incredibly unpleasant and f***ing awful temper. The first artist who blew me away. An an artist I still truly love.
I am very grateful for posting this video.
I feel like I was sitting on a high level lecture. It was amazing.
I love the engaging style of the speaker! She manages to go through the ups and downs of Caravaggio's turbulent life in just 30 minutes, in plain English and without sounding pompous at all. Thanks to the National Gallery for sharing this talk on UA-cam!
@Michael Jones 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Couldn't agree more. Her talk is geared to a general audience, but manages to get most of the big ideas in Caravaggio's work across. Not dumbed down in the least. Although, one important aspect of composition neglected is tension between actual viewer/artist distance (far) to scene vs seeming intimacy of composition, especially apparent in Supper at Emmaus.
She's great. Good books, too. And, of course, pomposity and Caravaggio don't really match up...
Very fitting for a character like Caravaggio
She often calls paintings "pictures" which I find interesting. I don't know if this is a British thing, but in America "pictures" are almost always referring to photography and not painting or drawing.
One of the best speakers I have seen, quick and to the point. No long pauses, no fiddling with notes - very professional. Well done Letizia!
A pause here and there can be helpful in digesting the information
if you like hearing a speaker on speed, with limited variation, and interspersed with innumerable "umms" - she is knowledgable, enthusisatic but needs to pace her delivery better.
Precise review of his gifted approach to portraits and biblical stories, but such a troubled life and too early a death.Excellent speaker!
@@stephenofmilford1216 She was great.
Rare for a Brit, no? You'd think she was a Yankee! Seriously, well done indeed.
Letizia is my most favorite presenters, she brings to life the beautiful paintings with her engaging and knowledgeable ways.
We agree!
Victoria F. ●
She loves her work !
elegant and succinct keep up the good work 👏
@@nationalgallery Now even the Brits want to talk about art?? Please... you should stick with things you know the most as piracy, slavery, colonialism, Opium wars, alcohol. Basically, the apex of your culture. Go figure what kind of people you are LOL
Letizia is a spectacular woman combining absolute beauty with intelligence and she is captivating to listen to.❤
This is such an outstanding talk about Caravaggio's life and work!
Ms Letizia Treves guides us on a brilliant tour, making us feel present at the scenes described so enthusiastically!
These were moments of enchantment while listening to/ watching Caravaggio's work.
Thanks very much indeed for this wonderful presentation.
The fact that we can even know such incredible detail of past lives just blows my mind!
Excellent ,best curator I have ever heard ,she loves what she does ,appreciate the passion and love for this work
@@forgive7449 ...nice square shoulders.
Couldn't put it better
Precisely!
You obviously haven't heard Norman Coady! He was my idol when I lived in London and went to the NG lunchtime lectures every day. He was one of the reasons I am a gallery guide now in my hometown, Budapest, in the Museum of Fine Arts.
@Michael Jones *Thank God for them, otherwise i wouldn't have given a hoot about Caravaggio.*
Just brilliant. Letizia Treves knows this material cold and takes you through it at breakneck speed.
Letizia Treves is an top-notch art historian/speaker whose passion & knowledge kept me mesmerized.
agree 😁 her tits kept me mesmerized aswell
She really knows her Italian!
@T.L. He probably is. So what. What are you?
En Italia Tina shut up
@@debbiejohnson2789 She is Italian, from Turin.
This is wonderful - and I could listen to Letizia all day!
I love Caravaggio's painting "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" in Rome. I have been to see it many times. He is easily one of my top 3 favorite painters! Love this lecture so much. I once spent 7 hours in the National Gallery in London.... it was NOT enough time.
Who are you other two favorite painters?
It is a wonderful thing to see someone knowledgeable and interested talking about Art and life. Thank you for this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, thank you Madam.
You are wonderful in every possible manners.
And thank you to the National Gallery. ♡☆☆☆
I watched hardly daring to draw a breath and found myself clapping at the screen at the end, magnificent presentation by someone who is so clearly passionate about her work, thank you Ms Treves.
Incredibly talented this storyteller ..totally captivating
What a naturally captivating curator. Thank you Letizia Treves.
She's a fantastic curator. Her dynamic presentation of Caravaggio's work is outstanding!
Wonderfully vivid, fluent and engaging presentation! She speaks directly to her audience without manuscript.
Lovely. She canters along - giving facts after guesses, after informed speculations, after judgements, and completely enthusiastically, with no attempt to intrude her precious "personality" the way so many presenters do. One of the best I've seen.
It's amazing that over 1 million people have seen this. Art is something that really brings people together!
I was 10 min alone in the room with Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula at Naples and it was such an experience. This lecture is a treasure to explain it all even more profound.
AH!! CARAVAGGIO ------ ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PAINTERS - LOVED THEM ALL !!! THANKS ! FROM U.K.(2021).
The National Gallery has always been a second home to me.However, I never appreciated Caravaggio so much until I came across your lecture.Many thanks for your inspiring words about this artist.
The speaker is doing a fantastic job explaining the paintings. Great!!!
I love that I can still enjoy this lecture, even though I'm laying in bed in the United States. Someday, I'll make my way to the National Gallery.
I hope you can visit san luigi dei francesi church near piazza navona in Rome
Probably the most stunning experience
giovanni de petris What's in it? Does it have Caravaggio?
San Luigi dei Francesi contains three of the greatest and most influential paintings ever produced in Italy by Carvaggio. The painting on the left, The Calling of St. Matthew, takes place indoors where Saint Matthew, then a finely dressed moneychanger, sits with a group of common types. Jesus has just entered the dark room, raised his arm, and uttered the words "Follow me," (Matthew 9:9). The saint looks up, incredulous with an expression as if to say, "Who, me?" The composition contributes to the drama of the scene. A source of light above and behind Jesus' head slashes the darkness and slants down to illuminate the saint's face. As in many of his religious works, Caravaggio's subjects are depicted at the moment of a miraculous event. On the opposite wall hangs The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and the third painting, above the altar, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, is not the painting Caravaggio originally created for this location.
Same here :,(
Stay in bed, The National doesn't really do Americans.
My most sincere congratulations to the amazingly brilliant Curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings 1600-1800, Letizia Treves ! @National Gallery thank you so very much for the Series 'You Choose'. I had the immense fortune of being in London in February 2016 and listen to James Heard talking about Rembrandt's Self-Portrait, age 34, who was equally brilliant.
On a side-note: thank you for the Spanish subtitles !!!
My absolute favorite artist.
Just breathtaking creations.
Il commento di una studiosa, che merita veramente un grande applauso, brava da riascoltare per gustare un grandissimo artista.
A wonderfully thoughtful and well-organized presentation. So much great information about the great Caravaggio.
The look on Salome’s face - incredible!
“I read a melancholy look, almost of regret and shame at what she had requested”, said Ms. Treves at 23:56
Extraordinary evocation of the life and work of Caravaggio. This is an intellectual crush, by a deeply passionate and clear sighted historian. Just wonderful.
It was a wonderful experience. Letizia Treves is magnificent, and I do admire her knowledge and her ability to comment without notes. She is photogenic enough, but I wish that instead of the camera focusing on HER most of the time (much more time I believe than on the paintings) would instead dwell more on the various details of the paintings. She is talking (and we are looking) at Caravaggio, after all.
She's energetic!
The pictures are awesome
It's the best crash course I've had. No pauses, no searching for words, quick and bright and straightforward to the point. I appreciate the introduction and I now know more about this artist!
her voice is so pleasant! could listen for hours to her.
Bravissima. Clear and engaging delivery. Kudos to Letizia Treves.
.......if a painting moves your psych and brings warmth to your heart, and instills love in you... then it is a " Master Piece"
Thanks to the National Gallery for sharing this talk on UA-cam! Letizia you are great.
I visited the National Gallery (for free! bless you) last weekend for the first time, after having lived in London since 2014. Caravaggio stood out among all the genius artists. The absolute privilege it is to have The National Gallery (and so many other world-class institutions) available to us for free cannot be understated. I spent 5 hours there on Saturday and could've spent many more, had I no need to eat. An incredible institution and an incredible artist. "The Supper at Emmaus" impacted me greatly, even being agnostic.
What an engaging lecturer! Ms. Treves captured and kept my attention from start to finish. I have homework and wasn't supposed to be watching UA-cam (wink, wink) but she lured me in. I just couldn't stop listening to her. Caravaggio is one of my favorite artists. It was wonderful to hear more about him from such an enthusiastic curator who isn't full of pomp. Thank you Ms. Treves. Thank you for a wonderful lesson! I will subscribe and look for your next lecture.
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What a fantastic presenter. Very much enjoyed this video
Excellent! She covered so much information and wove it together in an engaging way. Just outstanding.
A faacinating presentation by an engaging, knowledgable and articulate person.
Just sitting on a bench in National Gallery looking at masterpieces and listening to the lecture 🙃 thank-you
What a superb talk. An absolute treat.
What else can one say about such an obviously highly gifted speaker and art historian. As a casual observer of art history and, so, only superficially acquainted with C, she does bring life not only to the paintings but to the master whos created them. Thank you.
God bless the National gallery in London
Wonderful, she did a magnificent job. Very knowledgeable..I love it
Those paintings are superb , absolute treasures
I love her accent, the way she talks about name or place in Italy suddenly she changed her accent into Italian.
Great curator National Gallery has!
I find that actually to be pseudo-intellectual. It's awkward to change your accent in the middle of a sentence just for one word. One of the reasons is that people don't do it consistently with all words. For example, former NPR host Robert Sigel used to visit France each year, and if he referred to "Paris" he would use an English accent, but for any other city in France he would use the French pronunciation. Why Paris and not the other places? That's actually very common for people who shift their accents, and it makes no sense.
Second, people don't do it for every language. It's common if the word comes from French, Spanish, and Italian, but, for example, if the city is in Sweden they won't use a Swedish accent. Or if it's in the Philippines they won't use a Philippine accent.
So, because of these inconsistency it's clear there is no general rule to follow. For that reason, it's not appropriate to do this. You should use the accent of the language you're speaking in to pronounce the names of foreign cities.
@@HomeAtLast501 A snob is a snob
Romancing the Romance Languages but not the others perceived as mundane
Yes this is quite common
This syndrome needs a good name
@@HomeAtLast501 What are you talking about?! She is Italian. If you're going to pronounce something, why not pronounce it properly where you can? It's not about switching accents. Saying something in Italian correctly is certainly not an accent.
@@VigiLogic I explained what I'm talking about. We need to have a general principle to apply. Why is it that when English-speaking people who are trying to be "proper" will pronounce French cities using a French accent --- EXCEPT for Paris? It makes no sense. I remember Robert Siegel on NPR used to do this every year when he took his springtime NPR-paid vacation/work trip to France. He would pronounce Paris using an English accept, and every other city using a French accent. It's sophomoric and pseudo-intellectual.
Home At Last What has this anecdotal reference got anything to do with this? Like I said, pronouncing a word in another language as properly as possible is not an “accent”. An accent concerns different variations on inflection etc on the same language. As for the Paris reference, that’s because after so much prolonged use, certain words from another language become domesticated (in English, in this case). As a result, there is an acceptable Anglicised equivalent of Paris. Not the ideal pronunciation but works fine enough. One can choose. How making this choice translates as “pseudo-intellectual” beats me! (Especially when the correct pronunciation is in your own language.) Also, did you notice she always said “Rome” and not “RrOma”, as Rome is a standard Anglicised equivalent.
A beautuful young woman talking enthusiastically and promoting interest without referring to notes is remarkable, hence my remark!
Thank you.
One of his paintings is hanging in the national art gallery in Dublin. It was found by accident hanging in a building nearby. She’s so knowledgable and delivers it so well. Great video.
I can’t help but imagine myself talking about a subject this well. Any subject really.. I guess it would be so satisfying and exciting. What an unbelievable presenter she is, just wow!
We're so glad you enjoyed the talk, Civan!
This curator/speaker is such a wonderful presenter of an important masterpiece. Bringing the light and life to a rare piece of art.
I am grateful to Ms Treves for her excellent presentation.
The NG and the supreme speakers are democratising art. Incredible knowledge made available for all of us. Priceless.
oh, she is very very good , fluent, captivating. full marks!
My heart ❤️ has been with this art 🖼 work all my life.I wish I could have went to school.
I don't know much about art and didn't plan to watch the entire presentation but it held my attention to the end. Well done. Thank you very much Letizia Treves and National Gallery.
the curator is fabulous - imagine those beauties were painted 500 years ago bloody incredible
The delivery was very good and the lecturer's enthusiasm for this artist's life and works added to the talk. Paintings do not always speak for themselves.
Great lecture. The National Gallery is quite fortunate to have three Caravaggio paintings. For those interested in his work and lifetime in greater detail, read Francine Prose's small book, "Caravaggio-Painter of Miracles". The guy really tore up the streets while he lived but never really stopped painting until he died. He was ahead of his time. Thank you for the upload!
Thanks, I just ordered a copy of Painter of Miracles 😘
I wonder where and how the english stole those 3.
@@glravna
What are you talking about?
Just like every other art gallery in the world the collection consists of bequests and gifts by private individuals and purchases by the gallery.
The three Caravaggios were not stolen.
Thank you. I’ll buy it 🙏
Such a lovely, eloquent lady. Thank you for posting
LOVE Carravaggio's paintings! STELLAR... lovely presentation who speaks correct diction....
Bravo! Brilliant lecture. So much in such a short time and so compact and fluid the combination of his art and life. I'm a professor: I'm jealous...
One year ago I was standing in London gazing at these amazing paintings and the Velaquez masterpieces.
Really excellent presentation. A model lesson for other teachers and public speakers. 5 out 5 stars.
This is such a great and compelling presentation. We should see more of her lectures.
95% of content on youtube is absolutely worthless. This is the remaining 5% that seems to be priceless. Superb presentation and commentary.
Prolly a fake statement
@@ucommai5921 Well, The question is what you consider wortless.
Shut up.
@@adamsapple7193 I am scared to death
You surely have a great painter with a vivid life, Ms. Treves, but your enthusiam and detail makes it alive for me and for anyone as casual an admirer as I am. Thanks so much!
I was fortunate enough to see Supper At Emmaus when it was loaned to the Chicago Art Institute a few years ago. It is the only major Caravaggio I have seen. It was a sublime experience. Caravaggio is a story teller, and a very goid one at that. Each painting has its own narrative. But you never see the beginning or end to his stories. He drops you right into the middle as the action is happening, and the viewer must overcome the shock and surprise at being inserted into the story to make sense of it. In this painting the figure on the right is literally reaching out to grab you and pull you in. This is high drama.
In 17th century Rome, it was theater to the masses. Caravaggio's public paintings were the only theater many people back then had access to. Unlike the stained glass from the Medieval period the figures here look like everyday Romans in the 17th century. People could identify with these characters then, and we still do identify over 400 years later. They are real and immediate. They are dramatically lighted. Even now we cannot help but be sucked right into the story. We want to know where it goes next. But Caravaggio doesn't tell us that. We must make our own way and fill in the blanks. Caravaggio never lies in his paintings. He tells us exactly what happened. It is up to us to assign meaning. That is why Caravaggio is so very charged and powerful stilk after 400 years.
Excellent! Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you for this video. I am beyond impressed and taken by the curator. Her knowledge is truly incomparable. I must see more!
In lockdown these presentations are invaluable; thank you keep safe 🌈
Thank you, Letizia, you have made my day. It must be rewarding to know that your years of study and effort have enabled you to create a presentation--itself a work of art--that has been viewed and enjoyed almost 1.5 million times.
This is such a satisfying presentation
I feel privileged to have "attended" this lecture courtesy of UA-cam. Thank you
Please let's have many more videos from Letizia Treves! Her take on these subjects is always so informative and so subtle at the same time. Wonderful.
What a wonderful presentation, truly mesmerizing! I could listen to her for hours!
Caravaggio, what a fascinating and conflicted man that has produced some of the most striking art I have ever seen. Truly fascinating.
Im in awe of his work especially after learning that he only lived 39 years and accomplished so much in that short tumultuous time. I really appreciate the curator highlighting the overall style change in his technique through these works. To me his style seemed to progress from a brushy painterly flow to a more refined sfumato style while all the while fascinatingly balancing the light and shadows on his subjects and scenes.
I love looking at Caravaggio’s paintings. Thank you to this wonderful speaker who holds your interest.
Charming voice and professional insight! thank you.
Affascinante presentazione. Non conoscevo Letizia ma ho intuito subito dallo stile dello speech che si trattava di una Italiana. Bravissima.
Magnificent talk. Uplifting and positive. Dwelling on the art and not on the failures of his personal life. Very nicely done
He's one of my favorite artists..I had no ideal we had some of his work in our National Gallery. His work is so rich in color and expression. 😊
It's quite likely I'll never see these works in person which makes this video all the more appreciated. An interesting, engaging, informative discussion of my favorite artist. Thank you for preparing, presenting, recording, and posting the lecture.
Thank you Ms. Treves. This lecture is absolutely awesome. I've studied Caravaggio for years & sat in churches in Rome for hours looking at his paintings & traveled to many other countries & places to see his work whenever I could afford to go see where & when his work is displayed. I learned so much from this lecture. Absolutely magnificent research. Thank you National Gallery & Ms. Treves!
Brava! A fantastic talk by a truly learned speaker. She’s a treasure.
Excellent presentation. Clearly knowledgeable, but not condescending. Her Italian is excellent! Caravaggio...who I have to admit I had hardly heard of until about 30 years ago...although I was not entirely uninformed about art...has become my favourite painter. I have made a pilgrimage to the churches mentioned in Rome, the Borghese, and the the wonderful collection in Vienna. My criterion for a great painting is if it stands out from others in a gallery. Caravaggio's works always steal the limelight!
That's wonderful to have discovered an artist you love! Thanks for watching our video.
Brilliant presentation
Grazie mille…
What a plethora of rich history regarding this artist by a very knowledgeable tutor. Excellent video thank you SO much!!!
It was a moment when I couldn't feel any distance while listening to this amazing and harmonious story. I am fascinated by the atmosphere and the descriptor that focuses as if I were in the same space. I'm glad to know a lot of things I didn't know through this. Thank you🙏🏻.
This is a treasure. I've always admired the work of Caravaggio but now I know so much more of his life and times. Thank you Letizia Treves. Love your Italian accent but the emphasis on "Salome" is on the first syllable, I believe.
So interesting. I really leaned a lot and appreciate her story telling ability.
Cultured, educated and no make up!!! Classy lady ... a remnant of a world that went by no long ago!!! Thank you
Thank you for these programs, during CovidLockdown in Wyoming. 😷