Caravaggio's Secrets

By Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit

Book Overview

Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In this text the authors emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads them to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that solicit intimacy in order to block it with a secret.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262024497
• ISBN13: 9780262024495
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.3"