CARAVAGGIO – Eroticism and Drama. Paintings / Monteverdi – Lamento della ninfa

Caravaggio – a collection of early paintings with Monteverdi’s most beautiful madrigal. Best viewed full screen and in 1080p. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) – Lamento della ninfa. Madrigals, Book 8, SV 163: IV. Amor. Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi. jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) combined the effect of chiaroscuro with the psychological realism; creating the drama and emotional intensity in his paintings that feel like the actual events. Caravaggio’s sexuality is a much-debated topic and is at the heart of his art. Caravaggio never married, and there is an absence of erotic female figures in his works; while in his earlier works, replete with “full-lipped, languorous boys ... who seem to solicit the onlooker with their offers of fruit, wine, flowers—and themselves“, Caravaggio seems to indicate his taste for homoerotic subjects. The model of Amor vincit omnia and John the Baptist (Youth with the Ram), Cecco da Caravaggio, lived with t