Caravaggio: His life and style in three paintings | National Gallery 

Explore Caravaggio's last-known work and the women's stories around it in our new film for our current exhibition The Last Caravaggio: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7fsM4M2bbBg.htmlsi=7MTrk10BPNOoETdS

This is a perfect example of how You Tube can be an absolute treasure. Thanks for sharing this informative video.

I love the engaging style of the speaker! She manages to go through the ups and downs of Caravaggio's turbulent life in just 30 minutes, in plain English and without sounding pompous at all. Thanks to the National Gallery for sharing this talk on RU-vid!

I would listen to this woman talk about art anytime. She's wonderful.

One of the best speakers I have seen, quick and to the point. No long pauses, no fiddling with notes - very professional. Well done Letizia!

I feel like I was sitting on a high level lecture. It was amazing.

Letizia is my most favorite presenters, she brings to life the beautiful paintings with her engaging and knowledgeable ways.

Excellent ,best curator I have ever heard ,she loves what she does ,appreciate the passion and love for this work

This is such an outstanding talk about Caravaggio's life and work! Ms Letizia Treves guides us on a brilliant tour, making us feel present at the scenes described so enthusiastically! These were moments of enchantment while listening to/ watching Caravaggio's work. Thanks very much indeed for this wonderful presentation.

Letizia is a spectacular woman combining absolute beauty with intelligence and she is captivating to listen to.❤

Letizia Treves is an top-notch art historian/speaker whose passion & knowledge kept me mesmerized.

Just brilliant. Letizia Treves knows this material cold and takes you through it at breakneck speed.

The fact that we can even know such incredible detail of past lives just blows my mind!

This is wonderful - and I could listen to Letizia all day!

I love Caravaggio's painting "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" in Rome. I have been to see it many times. He is easily one of my top 3 favorite painters! Love this lecture so much. I once spent 7 hours in the National Gallery in London.... it was NOT enough time.

I watched hardly daring to draw a breath and found myself clapping at the screen at the end, magnificent presentation by someone who is so clearly passionate about her work, thank you Ms Treves.

I was 10 min alone in the room with Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula at Naples and it was such an experience. This lecture is a treasure to explain it all even more profound.

She's a fantastic curator. Her dynamic presentation of Caravaggio's work is outstanding!

It was a wonderful experience. Letizia Treves is magnificent, and I do admire her knowledge and her ability to comment without notes. She is photogenic enough, but I wish that instead of the camera focusing on HER most of the time (much more time I believe than on the paintings) would instead dwell more on the various details of the paintings. She is talking (and we are looking) at Caravaggio, after all.

Lovely. She canters along - giving facts after guesses, after informed speculations, after judgements, and completely enthusiastically, with no attempt to intrude her precious "personality" the way so many presenters do. One of the best I've seen.

It is a wonderful thing to see someone knowledgeable and interested talking about Art and life. Thank you for this.

Wonderfully vivid, fluent and engaging presentation! She speaks directly to her audience without manuscript.

Incredibly talented this storyteller ..totally captivating

The National Gallery has always been a second home to me.However, I never appreciated Caravaggio so much until I came across your lecture.Many thanks for your inspiring words about this artist.

A wonderfully thoughtful and well-organized presentation. So much great information about the great Caravaggio.

Thank you, thank you Madam. You are wonderful in every possible manners. And thank you to the National Gallery. ♡☆☆☆

I visited the National Gallery (for free! bless you) last weekend for the first time, after having lived in London since 2014. Caravaggio stood out among all the genius artists. The absolute privilege it is to have The National Gallery (and so many other world-class institutions) available to us for free cannot be understated. I spent 5 hours there on Saturday and could've spent many more, had I no need to eat. An incredible institution and an incredible artist. "The Supper at Emmaus" impacted me greatly, even being agnostic.

This is such a satisfying presentation

I love that I can still enjoy this lecture, even though I'm laying in bed in the United States. Someday, I'll make my way to the National Gallery.

What a superb talk. An absolute treat.

AH!! CARAVAGGIO ------ ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PAINTERS - LOVED THEM ALL !!! THANKS ! FROM U.K.(2021).

Bravissima. Clear and engaging delivery. Kudos to Letizia Treves.

What a naturally captivating curator. Thank you Letizia Treves.

Excellent! She covered so much information and wove it together in an engaging way. Just outstanding.

Extraordinary evocation of the life and work of Caravaggio. This is an intellectual crush, by a deeply passionate and clear sighted historian. Just wonderful.

The look on Salome’s face - incredible! “I read a melancholy look, almost of regret and shame at what she had requested”, said Ms. Treves at 23:56

It's amazing that over 1 million people have seen this. Art is something that really brings people together!

her voice is so pleasant! could listen for hours to her.

Thanks to the National Gallery for sharing this talk on RU-vid! Letizia you are great.

It's the best crash course I've had. No pauses, no searching for words, quick and bright and straightforward to the point. I appreciate the introduction and I now know more about this artist!

My absolute favorite artist. Just breathtaking creations.

What a fantastic presenter. Very much enjoyed this video

My most sincere congratulations to the amazingly brilliant Curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings 1600-1800, Letizia Treves ! @National Gallery thank you so very much for the Series 'You Choose'. I had the immense fortune of being in London in February 2016 and listen to James Heard talking about Rembrandt's Self-Portrait, age 34, who was equally brilliant. On a side-note: thank you for the Spanish subtitles !!!

LOVE Carravaggio's paintings! STELLAR... lovely presentation who speaks correct diction....

Great lecture. The National Gallery is quite fortunate to have three Caravaggio paintings. For those interested in his work and lifetime in greater detail, read Francine Prose's small book, "Caravaggio-Painter of Miracles". The guy really tore up the streets while he lived but never really stopped painting until he died. He was ahead of his time. Thank you for the upload!

The speaker is doing a fantastic job explaining the paintings. Great!!!

She's energetic! The pictures are awesome

A faacinating presentation by an engaging, knowledgable and articulate person.

Those paintings are superb , absolute treasures

.......if a painting moves your psych and brings warmth to your heart, and instills love in you... then it is a " Master Piece"

Such a lovely, eloquent lady. Thank you for posting

I don't know much about art and didn't plan to watch the entire presentation but it held my attention to the end. Well done. Thank you very much Letizia Treves and National Gallery.

What an engaging lecturer! Ms. Treves captured and kept my attention from start to finish. I have homework and wasn't supposed to be watching RU-vid (wink, wink) but she lured me in. I just couldn't stop listening to her. Caravaggio is one of my favorite artists. It was wonderful to hear more about him from such an enthusiastic curator who isn't full of pomp. Thank you Ms. Treves. Thank you for a wonderful lesson! I will subscribe and look for your next lecture.

I feel privileged to have "attended" this lecture courtesy of RU-vid. Thank you

In lockdown these presentations are invaluable; thank you keep safe 🌈

The NG and the supreme speakers are democratising art. Incredible knowledge made available for all of us. Priceless.

The delivery was very good and the lecturer's enthusiasm for this artist's life and works added to the talk. Paintings do not always speak for themselves.

What else can one say about such an obviously highly gifted speaker and art historian. As a casual observer of art history and, so, only superficially acquainted with C, she does bring life not only to the paintings but to the master whos created them. Thank you.

Just sitting on a bench in National Gallery looking at masterpieces and listening to the lecture 🙃 thank-you

This curator/speaker is such a wonderful presenter of an important masterpiece. Bringing the light and life to a rare piece of art.

Wonderful, she did a magnificent job. Very knowledgeable..I love it

Excellent! Thank you for sharing it!

I am grateful to Ms Treves for her excellent presentation.

God bless the National gallery in London

You surely have a great painter with a vivid life, Ms. Treves, but your enthusiam and detail makes it alive for me and for anyone as casual an admirer as I am. Thanks so much!

I love her accent, the way she talks about name or place in Italy suddenly she changed her accent into Italian. Great curator National Gallery has!

Thank you, Letizia, you have made my day. It must be rewarding to know that your years of study and effort have enabled you to create a presentation--itself a work of art--that has been viewed and enjoyed almost 1.5 million times.

I can’t help but imagine myself talking about a subject this well. Any subject really.. I guess it would be so satisfying and exciting. What an unbelievable presenter she is, just wow!

One of his paintings is hanging in the national art gallery in Dublin. It was found by accident hanging in a building nearby. She’s so knowledgable and delivers it so well. Great video.

This is such a great and compelling presentation. We should see more of her lectures.

A beautuful young woman talking enthusiastically and promoting interest without referring to notes is remarkable, hence my remark! Thank you.

What a wonderful presentation, truly mesmerizing! I could listen to her for hours!

the curator is fabulous - imagine those beauties were painted 500 years ago bloody incredible

Il commento di una studiosa, che merita veramente un grande applauso, brava da riascoltare per gustare un grandissimo artista.

One year ago I was standing in London gazing at these amazing paintings and the Velaquez masterpieces.

My heart ❤️ has been with this art 🖼 work all my life.I wish I could have went to school.

Thank you for this video. I am beyond impressed and taken by the curator. Her knowledge is truly incomparable. I must see more!

Im in awe of his work especially after learning that he only lived 39 years and accomplished so much in that short tumultuous time. I really appreciate the curator highlighting the overall style change in his technique through these works. To me his style seemed to progress from a brushy painterly flow to a more refined sfumato style while all the while fascinatingly balancing the light and shadows on his subjects and scenes.

Bravo! Brilliant lecture. So much in such a short time and so compact and fluid the combination of his art and life. I'm a professor: I'm jealous...

Really excellent presentation. A model lesson for other teachers and public speakers. 5 out 5 stars.

Please let's have many more videos from Letizia Treves! Her take on these subjects is always so informative and so subtle at the same time. Wonderful.

Caravaggio, what a fascinating and conflicted man that has produced some of the most striking art I have ever seen. Truly fascinating.

oh, she is very very good , fluent, captivating. full marks!

Fabulous talk. I saw plenty of Caravaggios during my stay in Rome. Seeing his works in the flesh are life changing, hearing about his life is even more so. Thank you.

I love looking at Caravaggio’s paintings. Thank you to this wonderful speaker who holds your interest.

This is a treasure. I've always admired the work of Caravaggio but now I know so much more of his life and times. Thank you Letizia Treves. Love your Italian accent but the emphasis on "Salome" is on the first syllable, I believe.

Charming voice and professional insight! thank you.

I love the way his art employs dynamic elements. It's as if he takes a snapshot of the scene

95% of content on youtube is absolutely worthless. This is the remaining 5% that seems to be priceless. Superb presentation and commentary.

Magnificent talk. Uplifting and positive. Dwelling on the art and not on the failures of his personal life. Very nicely done

Cultured, educated and no make up!!! Classy lady ... a remnant of a world that went by no long ago!!! Thank you

Brava! A fantastic talk by a truly learned speaker. She’s a treasure.

It's quite likely I'll never see these works in person which makes this video all the more appreciated. An interesting, engaging, informative discussion of my favorite artist. Thank you for preparing, presenting, recording, and posting the lecture.

Thank you Ms. Treves. This lecture is absolutely awesome. I've studied Caravaggio for years & sat in churches in Rome for hours looking at his paintings & traveled to many other countries & places to see his work whenever I could afford to go see where & when his work is displayed. I learned so much from this lecture. Absolutely magnificent research. Thank you National Gallery & Ms. Treves!

What a plethora of rich history regarding this artist by a very knowledgeable tutor. Excellent video thank you SO much!!!

It was a moment when I couldn't feel any distance while listening to this amazing and harmonious story. I am fascinated by the atmosphere and the descriptor that focuses as if I were in the same space. I'm glad to know a lot of things I didn't know through this. Thank you🙏🏻.

He's one of my favorite artists..I had no ideal we had some of his work in our National Gallery. His work is so rich in color and expression. 😊

I was fortunate enough to see Supper At Emmaus when it was loaned to the Chicago Art Institute a few years ago. It is the only major Caravaggio I have seen. It was a sublime experience. Caravaggio is a story teller, and a very goid one at that. Each painting has its own narrative. But you never see the beginning or end to his stories. He drops you right into the middle as the action is happening, and the viewer must overcome the shock and surprise at being inserted into the story to make sense of it. In this painting the figure on the right is literally reaching out to grab you and pull you in. This is high drama. In 17th century Rome, it was theater to the masses. Caravaggio's public paintings were the only theater many people back then had access to. Unlike the stained glass from the Medieval period the figures here look like everyday Romans in the 17th century. People could identify with these characters then, and we still do identify over 400 years later. They are real and immediate. They are dramatically lighted. Even now we cannot help but be sucked right into the story. We want to know where it goes next. But Caravaggio doesn't tell us that. We must make our own way and fill in the blanks. Caravaggio never lies in his paintings. He tells us exactly what happened. It is up to us to assign meaning. That is why Caravaggio is so very charged and powerful stilk after 400 years.

I could have easily listened to her talk about Caravaggio for another hour. So engaging!

Superb lecture . Thank you I live in Dublin and we have The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio. I love her tone of voice.