Caravaggio - documentary by Robert Hughes (1975) 2 of 7
"There was art before him [Caravaggio] and art after him, and they were not the same."
--Robert Hughes
of Robert Hughes, Peter Craven wrote:
..No critic has the same ability to project his personality in the moment of critical utterance. The early TV Hughes with his huge eyes, his rakish long fair hair and his booming, burnished Sydney voice, at once leathery and posh, was as Australian as Grange Hermitage, but calling no man master in a way that defied all cultural cringing.
It didn't matter that, as Edmund Campion said, at the outset he used adjectives the way the chefs of Normandy used butter, the proof was in the cuisine.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
