Sean and Angela discuss Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, if art can survive the universal solvent of the internet, the dull managers of hard power guiding the antisocial artisan/conduits of soft power, and the rewards (getting paid by the Knights of Malta) and risks (dying of malaria in Tuscany) of Doing the Race.

Caravaggio ~ Robert Hughes Full Documentary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Caravaggio

https://open.substack.com/pub/angelanagle/p/can-you-fight-the-illiterate-future

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