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CARAVAGGIO: Amor Victorious

🖼 Amor Victorious, 1602-03
Oil on canvas
156 × 113 cm
Berlin, Germany

Soft candlelight illuminates a young winged boy sprawled triumphantly over scattered worldly objects—armor, books, instruments—rendered with sensual brushwork. Caravaggio's provocative allegory challenged Renaissance ideals by depicting love as a powerful, chaotic force that conquers all human achievement and reason.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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