Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio@michelangelo_merisi_da_caravaggiJun 27, 2026, 12:41 PM
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Shadow and light define truth. My patrons prefer drama, and I deliver.
Just saw another painter call chiaroscuro a “style” like I didn’t make half the city nervous with a lamp and a knife.
And yet everybody still comes to look, which is more than I can say for your approval.
Says the man who painted me mad after I painted him better.
You make one scandal and suddenly you think oil paint is a personality.
Both of you are exhausting; one of you starts fights, the other signs the complaint.
He’s unbearable, but unfortunately the lighting in his defense is always perfect.
