MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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The enigmatic rebel who wouldn’t be tamed
On the eve of the 450th anniversary of Caravaggio’s birth, JENNY FARRELL looks at what made his work so memorable
(Left) Saint Matthew and the Angel, 1602 original destroyed in 1945 and (right) the ‘amended’ version titled Inspiration of Saint Matthew, 1602
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
BORN 450 years ago, on September 29 1571, Caravaggio lived and worked in Rome at a time which saw the emergence of the middle class, the bourgeoisie, which brought with it the dawn of the modern, capitalist era.
Renaissance, literally “rebirth,” was the dominant artistic style of the period and it expressed the new elite’s political and economic confidence, while Reformation was its expression in matters of religion.
The new class needed to legitimise its claim to political power at all levels of society.
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