{"id":677,"date":"2019-12-11T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:23:17","slug":"advent-calendar-11-caravaggio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/11\/advent-calendar-11-caravaggio\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent calendar #11: Caravaggio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trundling on toward the longest night: a chill, barren time. For today’s Advent window I give you a piece of art I make sure to greet every time I’m at the Nelson: Caravaggio’s John the Baptist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notes on this painting remark on its introspective quality: the Baptist not as prophet but as hermit of the wilderness, cast in a stark dynamic of light and dark, almost strobed; denuded of symbols except for a reed cross. This is not the accessible icon of John as a narrative figure. This is the John who sends people to ask, “Are you the one we’re waiting for, or should we look for another?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s a compelling image for our skeptical age, but I would think he’d be compelling to people of any time who ponder hard questions when the light is scant. “A voice said, ‘Cry out!’ And I said, ‘What shall I cry?'” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is that moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trundling on toward the longest night: a chill, barren time. For today’s Advent window I give you a piece of art I make sure to greet every time I’m at the Nelson: Caravaggio’s John the Baptist. Notes on this painting remark on its introspective quality: the Baptist not as prophet but as hermit of the<\/p>\n

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