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Caravaggio: A Sinner and the Painter of Miracles

Monday, April 13

6:00 pm

Location: Shorewood Village Center

Caravaggio was hailed as one of the most celebrated artists of his time on the colorful stage of the Italian Baroque. His paintings evoked strong emotion through their drama, beauty, movement, pretense, and horror. In this lecture from the Cornerstone History Symposium, attendees will learn that as an artist, Caravaggio was prolific and temperamental. As a man, he was difficult, mercurial, and violent. He saw everything, lived everything, good and evil, sometimes with a touch of grace and other times in total absence of it.

He painted from life -- painted all of it, every last detail, always.

Professor Karri L. Fritz-Klaus has worked within the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of African Art. She is a strong believer in the enrichment of our lives through exposure to the arts, history, and literature. In pursuit of those passions, Karri has been lecturing on various artists and artistic movements for several years, offering both symposiums as well as individual topics of interest. Like the culture of art, Karri's offerings are ever-growing.