It's not just Caravaggio. Take his cadet the Antwerper Cornelis Schut (1597-1655) for example. We can admire him, in the church of La Trinité, in the Abbey-aux-Dames de Caen founded around 1060 by Queen Mathilde (the one who made the famous "Bayeux Tapestry" for her husband William the Conqueror) a monumental, terrible and somewhat autobiographical Massacre of the Innocents .
He too was in Rome as good a painter as a bad boy. Twenty-two years after his chiaroscuro master also committed murder. And, for that, had to similarly leave the Eternal City.
A fight. A knife that leaves. Here he is condemned to the galleys for life. A donation of works to the prestigious Academy of Saint-Luc commutes the sentence to exile for life.
So goodbye the friends of workshops and bamboche who nicknamed Schut "Broodzak" ("bread bag"). These “Bentvueghels” (“flock of birds”), a company of happy Dutch drilles of which he was one of the founding members, embellished the
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