Tanners Talks, BBC Art Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon on Caravaggio

We are looking forward to greeting art critic, author, journalist and presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon here at Tanners for a talk on Italian painter Caravaggio. Andrew is one of the UK’s leading figures in broadcasting having presented numerous major television series on art for the BBC. For his book Caravaggio: A Life Scared and Profane he spent a decade piecing together the scraps of evidence left of the artist's life, and in this evening talk he answers some of the questions that have long puzzled scholars.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome, Naples, Sicily and Malta, through which he moved, were those of cardinals, prayer and violence. Caravaggio killed a man, wounded many others, and was himself the victim of a grievous assault which left him terribly injured and hastened his premature death. Through the course of this tempestuous life he managed, despite himself and his circumstances, to create some of the greatest paintings in the history of art. This lecture tells a part of his story and tries to illuminate some of his immense genius. A fascinating evening awaits.

Please note this event includes a fizz reception and a fork-buffet supper.