History & The Arts
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
...research into the trauma of an enigmatic sexuality dissipates the hidden sexual content of the trauma while reasserting its sexual energy. Painting makes visible the sensual grounds of a metaphysical fantasy. (Bersani and Dutoit, 1998, pp. 81–2) Activity 11 Click to open Colour Plate 2 showing Caravaggio's St John the Baptist (Youth with a Ram),1602, oil on canvas, 132...