"Caravaggio wouldn't follow Rafael's footsteps and that's why we don't find the artistic and softness that is so characteristic in Tizian and Rembrandts late paintings. He searched for a bloody and dramatic representation of reality. He is hard, correct and direct. But it doesn't help just being hard and dramatic; the painting has also to be aesthetic beautiful too. And here I have found the most beautiful, sublime aesthetics "
- Odd Nerdrum

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