Delphi Complete Works of Caravaggio Quotes

“Amusingly, Caravaggio gives the back end of the horse a prominent place in The Conversion of St. Paul, as it seems to project out of the left side of the image, directly aimed at Carracci's Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which was, and still remains today, immediately beside it.”
― Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, Delphi Complete Works of Caravaggio

“Completed circa 1593, this early self-portrait depicts the artist as Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. According to Caravaggio’s first biographer, Giovanni Baglione, the work was a cabinet piece created with the aid of a mirror. It dates from Caravaggio’s first years in Rome, after his arrival from his native Milan in 1592. Sources tend to agree that at one point the artist fell ill and spent six months in the hospital of Santa Maria della Consolazione, possibly suffering an ailment like malaria, which would explain the jaundiced appearance of the skin and the icterus in the eyes, as portrayed in Bacchus.”
― Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, Delphi Complete Works of Caravaggio