*FANGIRLISH SQUEE*

[redjeweled]

A friend just sent this to me:

Researchers Identify Bones as Caravaggio's (The New York Times).

ZOMG.

Erm. I mean.

Hooray! This is terribly exciting news! I am terribly excited to hear it!

[Caravaggio] was also known as a rogue given to brawls, chasing men and women, and even murdering a tennis opponent.I love you, Caravaggio. So, so much.

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[elrhiarhodan]

Confession, I thought about naming my journal Chiaroscuro, Journeys Between Light and Shadow. But I thought that was bit too pretentious.

And you are not a dorkface. I once stood in front of "Deposition from The Cross" for over an hour.

[redjeweled]

Chiaroscuro is so fabulous. I love how I can tell a Caravaggio (or a school-of-Caravaggio) at fifty paces or more because of it.

I love standing in front of paintings for long periods of time, too. Alas, my luck is such that either a crowd or closing time tends to get in the way. *shakes tiny fists*

Someday I will get to the Vatican Museums, and it will be amazing.

(Dorky thing: I only just realised that the Vatican has its own web suffix--it's .va. Well, it is its own country, after all; if it has its own standing army, why not its own web suffix?)

[elrhiarhodan]

Actually, I wasn't at the Vatican. At the dawn of time, or 1982, whichever came first, the Vatican sent a collection of artwork to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the aforementioned Deposition from the Cross and one of the Raphael Tapestries.

Both were breath stealing.