Episode 267 - Caravaggio’s “Deposition”
Rebuilding The Renaissance - A podcast by Rocky Ruggiero - Wednesdays
Located in the Pinacoteca of the Vatican Museums, Caravaggio’s “Deposition” was thought by many of his contemporaries to be the painter’s greatest work. The dramatic representation of very real-looking biblical characters handling the dead body of Christ in a shallow, tenebrously-lit foreground space makes for a very moving visual narrative.
