Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande
How did Caravaggio’s Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa? And why was The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? This article surveys the main circumstances linking Caravaggio’s pictorial corpus to the topicality of current ev...
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| description | How did Caravaggio’s Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa? And why was The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? This article surveys the main circumstances linking Caravaggio’s pictorial corpus to the topicality of current events and to the so-called European migrant crisis. After critical reflection on these transfers, the focus shifts on a book that is both a journalistic investigation of migratory phenomena and a literary work: La frontiera (2015) by Alessandro Leogrande which concludes with an intense reflection on the representation of suffering in Caravaggio’s painting. What emerges, is the possibility of a critical and self-critical gaze, an exercise capable of questioning contemporary visual culture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0fa1e4bbea774bb49995f11178b1b2912022-12-22T01:24:27ZengUniversity of BolognaFinzioni2785-22882021-10-011110611710.6092/issn.2785-2288/1355311871Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, LeograndeFrancesco Zucconi0Università IUAV di VeneziaHow did Caravaggio’s Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa? And why was The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? This article surveys the main circumstances linking Caravaggio’s pictorial corpus to the topicality of current events and to the so-called European migrant crisis. After critical reflection on these transfers, the focus shifts on a book that is both a journalistic investigation of migratory phenomena and a literary work: La frontiera (2015) by Alessandro Leogrande which concludes with an intense reflection on the representation of suffering in Caravaggio’s painting. What emerges, is the possibility of a critical and self-critical gaze, an exercise capable of questioning contemporary visual culture.https://finzioni.unibo.it/article/view/13553migrationvisual culturegazecritique |
| spellingShingle | Francesco Zucconi Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande Finzioni migration visual culture gaze critique |
| title | Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande |
| title_full | Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande |
| title_fullStr | Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande |
| title_short | Regarding the Image of the Pain of Others: Caravaggio, Sontag, Leogrande |
| title_sort | regarding the image of the pain of others caravaggio sontag leogrande |
| topic | migration visual culture gaze critique |
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