According to Giovan Pietro Bellori\u2019s account, Marino and Caravaggio would have been \u201cvery close friends.\u201d However, we only have limited, and sometimes unreliable, information about their relationship. Nevertheless, the poet certainly expressed generous praise for the artist in various works, with tributes written and published long after the painter\u2019s death. In fact, there are two texts dedicated to Caravaggio in the Galeria: a sonnet praising his portrait of Marino (Ritratti, XV, 11), and a madrigal for the famous tondo of the head of Medusa, now in the Uffizi(Pitture, 48). Caravaggio is also remembered in the poem Il Tempio from 1614, and again in Adone, where Marino pays tribute to him in four verses, an exceptional case when compared to the fleeting mention he gives to other painters. Therefore, his admiration appears to have been sincere although their acquaintance must have been brief, since it started in Clement VIII Aldobrandini\u2019s Rome \u2013 between 1600- 1605 \u2013 at the beginning of the poet\u2019s career and the end of the artist\u2019s Roman period. It was perhaps during these years that Marino managed to obtain the Susanna \u201cby Caravaggio\u2019s hand\u201d in his collection, which he recalls in a letter (Letters 1620). To this day, neither the Susanna nor the portrait of Marino have been traced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to Giovan Pietro Bellori\u2019s account, Marino and Caravaggio would have been \u201cvery close friends.\u201d However, we only have limited, and sometimes unreliable, information about their relationship. Nevertheless, the poet certainly expressed generous praise for the artist in various works, with tributes written and published long after the painter\u2019s death. In fact, there are two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-approfondimenti"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n