caravaggio's famous painting as a tablo on stage.and here an actress strikes the pose of mary magdalen in ecstasy. modeled on caravaggio's portrayed from sixty six. these living pictures became popular in the late eighteenth century it's how arch was offered to raunchy. i mean there are a lot of delayed a few director live you can run there lee came up with this idea in two thousand and six when she gave a talk on caravaggio's working methods at the university innovators a question that was up and for once and me a little bit instead of giving a lecture she had a few students replicate the way kind of worked out in his studio she came to realize that this performance had something that spoke to everyone what i meant there to keep on as michelangelo mary see the early painter came to be known as caravaggio the name of the town where his family once lived known for his real ism and chiaroscuro which means stark contrast between light and shadow about joe's approach was revolutionary. he lives and works in naples among other places the