If It Ain't Baroque: Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Caravaggio Collection Reconsidered

It's Sunday and that means it's time to indulge our Catholic guilt in our own stupid way. 

Accordingly . . . A recent write-up concerns a local favorite of good Catholics across the region.

Check the intro and one of the better faith community write-ups we've seen recently . . .

"The Nelson-Atkins has a (countable) number of great works among its 42,000, but I do not hesitate to say the greatest is Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness by, in my view, the greatest painter who ever lived, Michelangelo Merisi, whom we know now not by his given name, as we do the Michelangelo whose family name was Buonarroti Simoni, but by the town in Lombardy where he was born: Caravaggio."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

The Catholic Thing: Caravaggio in Kansas City