(Source: jamesedwardjeeb, via m-asochism)
“Caravaggio sees what he sees with such intensity - even if it is only an image in his mind’s eye, an image conjured from the imagination - that he makes seeing itself seem a compulsive and potentially fraught act. This is why Caravaggio’s paintings have a destructive effect on pictures by other artists hung anywhere near them in art galleries. They exert such a sensually charged, magnetic attraction that they seem almost as though backlit, or somehow illuminated from within, while the pictures around them - even those of great artists, whether Rembrandt or Poussin or Velázquez - appear by comparision to recede, to retreat from the gaze.”
-Andrew Graham-Dixon Caravaggio
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