Caravaggio Ep 3 of 8: Bringing Lusciousness Back to Caput Mundi

ArtHoles

Michael Anthony

Comedy

4.9 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Caravaggio finds a new home after maybe murdering somebody. But who would take in such a person? Turns out, lots of people. We’ll learn about Caravaggio’s artistic developments, including one painting that has a surprising connection to the show! We’ll also learn that sometimes, having your monkey cared for is more important than rebuilding a city. If you were a genre painting, what kind of genre painting would you be? Would you have bursting figs and succulent cherries? Would you be a red-wine-drunk sex god? Or would you just steal stuff? Just let your Soul Glo, meet a few Cardinal-Nephews, keep your lizard where it belongs, and, of course, watch out for horses.

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0:13.8	All right, welcome back to ArtHoles. My name is Michael Anthony, and this is the podcast about art and art history with someone who has absolutely no
0:17.4	background in either topic. I hope everybody's doing well, and before we get
0:21.6	back into our Caravaggio story, I just have a few housekeeping items.
0:25.7	The first is there's an additional main source for the series that I had to pick up.
0:29.5	It's called Love for Sale, a World History of Prostitution by Niles Johann Ringdahl.
0:35.0	And it's kind of hard to hide the ball on that one, so I guess a bit of a spoiler alert.
0:38.8	We're going to be talking quite a bit about sex work in the series, including a bunch of stuff about pimps. And the other item
0:44.6	is not going to make me sound like a fully formed adult man, but whatever, and in retrospect,
0:50.0	as I'm about to say it, it's a weird thing to talk about right after bringing up pimp's.
0:54.4	But I promised my mom that I would apologize to everyone, and this is legit. I really didn't consider
0:58.6	this. At the end of episode 8 of Jackson Pollack, if you were driving while listening to that, I am really sorry. I didn't realize how jarring that might be.
1:07.0	My mom actually listens to the show and she was driving during that part and she said it was, quote quote unsettling. I still think I would have
1:14.4	done the exact same thing and maybe would have leaned in a little more had I been
1:17.7	aware at the time so I'm not exactly sure what that says about me. But regardless
1:22.1	we're here now and there's nothing I can do about it even if I
1:24.6	wanted to because I don't know how to go back and change anything. So now that that's
1:28.7	out of the way, it's time to get back into our story.
1:44.8	When we last left Caravaggio, he was wandering Italy after being chased out of Milan for maybe something to do with a sex worker, some sort of gentleman who may be a tough guy, a possible slashing of a face that involved a sex worker, and a police officer that was killed. Maybe. If you break down that passage from
1:54.8	Mancini's manuscript, it's not hard to reconstruct what might have happened more
1:58.3	broadly. Occam's razor at play. Two men got into a fight over a sex worker. One guy was the aggressor, and the other
2:05.4	was just being a gentleman, which I'm sure was skewed based on who told the story.
2:10.1	The fight escalated. Someone was slashed with a knife. a police officer got involved, and then the officer was killed.
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