Boys wearing wings

Nicholas Penny

  • Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard
    Thames and Hudson, 404 pp, £22.50, May 1983, ISBN 0 500 09161 7
  • Circa 1600: A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting by S.J. Freedberg
    Harvard, 125 pp, £21.25, January 1983, ISBN 0 674 13156 8
  • Domenichino by Richard Spear
    Yale, 382 pp, £75.00, November 1982, ISBN 0 300 02359 6

There is also one Michael Agnolo from Caravaggio who is doing marvellous things in Rome ... He thinks little of the works of other masters ... All works of art he believes to be ‘Bagatelli’, child’s play, whoever by, and whatever of, unless they are made from life, and that there is no better course than to follow Nature. And so he will not make a single brushstroke without taking it straight from life.

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