Caravaggio - The lute player (c. 1595)

One of the most beautiful theatrical poses of Caravaggio, who is known was a real stage director. Reality enters in this work after the score is true, a true madrigal much in vogue in the sixteenth century. We are not faced with a simple composition but it is a document of the time.
The intelligent light of Caravaggio illuminates what is needed, there is no time or space; everything is suspended in the timeless non-place that Caravaggio was able to create well before Metaphysics.
But we perceive it, nothing is real in that light and in that pose. It is the great theater of art.