why Caravaggio is the art superstar of our film age
'Do you like Caravaggio?' asks wealthy Dickie Greenleaf to his enigmatic new friend Tom Ripley, at the beginning of the current Netflix drama based on Patricia Highsmith's famous thriller: The talented Mr. Ripley. The query is a kind of test and is about more than just class. It is intended as a measure of character, of soul. For Greenleaf, the playboy son of an American shipping magnate on a permanent vacation on the Amalfi Coast, the answer could act as a key that unlocks a world of shared culture and taste.
Questions about Caravaggio are also being asked in London ...