The Calling of St. Matthew
1600 · San Luigi dei Francsei, Rome
Light follows Christ's pointing hand across a dim counting-room to Matthew, who gestures at himself in disbelief. The picture made Caravaggio famous overnight.
★ 9.0
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As You Like It
1600 · 320 pages
Banished from court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden in men's clothes and coaches the man she loves in how to court her. She talks rings around everyone in Shakespeare.
★ 7.2
Purification of the Temple
1600 · The Frick Collection, New York City
El Greco split the canvas down the middle: the traders tumbling out on the left, the disciples watching calmly on the right.
★ 5.7
St. Jerome
1600 · The Frick Collection, New York City
Not the desert hermit but the Doctor of the Church, in cardinal's red with one long hand resting on his own translation of the Bible.
★ 5.4
Christ Blessing (The Savior of the World)
1600 · National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Two fingers raised in a gesture reaching back to Byzantium, one hand on a crystal orb, the face long and sorrowful and unmistakably his.
★ 5.2
True happinesse Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth, and choice.
Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love · 1600
De Magnete · 1600
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
Much Ado About Nothing · 1600
She cannot love, Nor take no shape nor project of affection, She is so self-endeared.
Much Ado About Nothing · 1600
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
Much Ado About Nothing · 1600