Caravaggio em Londres


Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist

There is a frisson of the trans-gressive about Caravaggio's art, a morbidity as much spiritual as it is - to modern eyes - sexual and social. It's difficult not to come over a bit queer looking at Caravaggio, whatever one's sexual orientation or habits; whatever, even, one's actual sex. Women, I think, must see Caravaggio differently. But how differently? It's a question I can never answer - and I doubt that such questions were ever much on the artist's mind, even if they occur to us.

in The Guardian