…Encounters with Art…
At Caravaggio Press, the emphasis lies on the viewer. Why look at art? What do you see in this painting or sculpture?
Erudition provides the necessary backdrop for such questions, but cannot answer them. The impact of art is immediate.
No artist understood the power of visual drama better than Caravaggio; yet his quest transcends time and space.
Throughout human history, painters, sculptors, and architects have shared a common goal: reaching out to the observer.
In prose or verse, in shorter or longer forms, writers have risen to that challenge, through words ut pictura poesis - "as is painting, so is poetry."
Please send your essays, stories, poems, or plays to Caravaggio Press. Your work should always converse with striking images, and we request you to include them, either in-text or as links.