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TEACHERS AND IMITATORS
in 1562 a friend of Michelangelo wrote to Duke Sofonisba would have been familiar with the
Cosimo I de’ Medici of Florence enclosing one works of Michelangelo, who created works with
of Sofonisba’s sketches, a work titled “A Boy similar emotion. The relationship between the
Bitten by a Crawfish” (left). The work came young woman and aged genius was conducted
about, he explained, “because Michelangelo, via letters, supervised by her father. Despite the
having seen her drawing of a laughing girl, said limitations of her encounters as a woman, the
he would like to see a weeping boy, this being effect of her drawing was profound: Forty years
more difficult. So she sent him this, a portrait of later, its gestures and expression inspired one of
her brother whom she studiously made to cry.” Caravaggio’s most expressive works (below).
“BOY BITTEN BY A LIZARD,” BY CARAVAGGIO,
CA 1595. FONDAZIONE ROBERTO LONGHI, FLORENCE
ALBUM/AKG/RABATTI & DOMINGIE
