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Maart 2013: jaargang 10, nommer 1 - LitNet

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<strong>LitNet</strong> Akademies Jaargang <strong>10</strong> (1), <strong>Maart</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

Figuur 17. Die hedendaagse “hoi polloi” voor Mattheus en die Engel (voor) en Die<br />

Roeping van Mattheus(lings) in die Contarelli Kapel in die San Luigi dei Francesi in<br />

Rome<br />

Omdat ek binne vier dae soveel moontlik van sy skilderye in Rome wou sien, moes ek myself<br />

meestal van een kerk en galery na die ander haas, en het ek dikwels net ’n enkelwoord-vraag<br />

aan die museumopsigters of -wagte gestel: “Caravaggio?” Hulle kon my altyd dadelik help,<br />

en gevoelens van herkenning, opwinding en behaaglikheid was altyd herkenbaar wanneer ek<br />

dikwels moeg en natgesweet voor sy werke kon staan. Vir my was ’n eng fokus op die<br />

skilderye van Caravaggio ’n noodsaaklike vorm van selfbehoud, aangesien die duisende<br />

skilderye en ander kunswerke van Rome die eensame pelgrim verward en ontsteld kan laat.<br />

Graham-Dixon (20<strong>10</strong>:42) beskryf die skilderye in sensuele, bykans bonatuurlike terme:<br />

They exert such a sensually charged, magnetic attraction that they seem almost as<br />

though backlit, or somehow illuminated from within, while the pictures around<br />

them – even those of great artists, whether Rembrandt or Poussin or Velázquez –<br />

appear by comparison to recede, to retreat from gaze.<br />

Joachim van Sandrart beskryf Die Twyfelende Thomas in dieselfde trant: “By means of good<br />

painting and modeling he was able to show on the faces of all those present such an<br />

expression of astonishment and naturalness of skin that in comparison all other pictures<br />

seemed to be coloured paper” (in Graham-Dixon 20<strong>10</strong>:239).<br />

Oor die uitstalling van Omnia vincit amor (“Die liefde oorwin alles”) tussen 120 ander<br />

skilderye deur gevierde kunstenaars in ’n galery van Vincenzo Giustiniani rapporteer Van<br />

Sandrart as volg: “[I]t was covered with a curtain of dark green silk, and was shown last, after<br />

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