“The fragments that tell us what we know about the life and death of the painter I call M float on the surface of a treacherous reality … You have to apply a forensic and skeptical mind to the enigmas fo M’s life and death. You have to know how to read the evidence. You have to know the evidence is there - you need a feel for the unsaid, for the missing file, the cancelled entry, the tacit conclusion, the gap, the silence, the business done with a nod and a wink. The missing data in M’s life and death make up a narrative of their own, running invisible but present through the known facts.”
-- Peter Robb’s (1998) biography of Caravaggio
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