Month: September 2011
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Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, AKA Caravaggio, notorious bad boy of art, rebellious realist and master of chiaroscuro, spent much of his life, with all of its dramatic ups and downs, in Rome. His wild behavior and the scandalous brushes with heresy brought on by his insistence on using unrepentantly grungy commonfolk for his models in…
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More Paul Felix
As I mentioned last year, John Nevarez continues to maintain and add to this unofficial blog for the work of the superb visual development artist Paul Felix. The latest additions are a wonderful series of visual notes on perspective, shading, composition and more that are like a classroom in themselves. Great stuff. [Via Scott Altmann…