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Das Sehbare und das Unsehbare
Teil 3: Abenteuer der Bildanschauung – Caravaggios Enthauptungen des Johannes
This book is a pleading for the intensive contemplation of paintings. With the analyses presented here, we dive into the immensely multifaceted pictorial world of Caravaggio's work.
An adventure that is also a particularly tempting venture because it is a matter of becoming completely involved in one's own aesthetic experience. That means, it is only in the concrete visual perception that we encounter the inner meaning of the intrinsically significant pictorial phenomena in the works. In other words: "We see the value" of painting, as Art historian Theodor Hetzer once euphorically and pathetically formulated, "in the magic of its possibilities".
Readers are invited on a special phenomenological journey through magnificent pictorial landscapes of the early modern period. The focus of interest here is Caravaggio's pictorial solution in connection with the beheading of John the Babtist.
