Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each choice: Caravaggio’s method or the decorum his patrons expected?
Groups: Caravaggio’s method · Expected decorum
- Pilgrims’ filthy soles turned toward the viewer
- Light used to pick out one gesture and drop the rest
- Saints modelled on laborers with weathered faces
- Idealized features befitting a holy figure
- Even light showing the whole sacred company clearly
- Clean, dignified drapery and graceful gesture
Hints
- Ask whether the choice serves realism or propriety.
- Dirty feet on a holy figure offended the second.
Show the answer
Caravaggio’s method: Saints modelled on laborers with weathered faces, Pilgrims’ filthy soles turned toward the viewer, Light used to pick out one gesture and drop the rest
Expected decorum: Idealized features befitting a holy figure, Clean, dignified drapery and graceful gesture, Even light showing the whole sacred company clearly
Why
Patrons rejected canvases for indecorum, and missed the argument. If God entered an actual poor body, dirty feet are not an insult to the sacred; they are the claim itself.
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