UNIT 3
The Lute Player
Subject -
soft facial features, thick brown hair, a madrigal about love,
Style -
the innovative approach to light, Caravaggio's method,
Composition -
flowerpiece, the still-life tradition, placed in a bowl or basket with a base, the globe of the carafe with its
reflections, a parallel with the celestial globe on the ceiling, the central rose, white jasmine, inventions, new
technique of copying reality, a mosaic of naturalistic images, the shallow focus of...