Caravaggio’s Queer Jesus

<h1>When I was growing up Christian, nobody told me the religion took its key images of Jesus from queer painters.</h1> How ironic, I’d realize later, for a religion that hated the dreaded “gays” to love Michelangelo, Leonardo, etc. Christians loved the movie The Passion of the Christ. The director, Mel Gibson, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-03-07-0403070396-story.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">spoke</a> of his inspiration: <blockquote> “I think his work is beautiful. I mean it’s violent, it’s dark, it’s spiritual and it also has an odd whimsy or strangeness to it. And it’s so real looking.” </blockquote> The Italian painter Caravaggio had shown Christians how to see Jesus as a physical man. It took a homosexual to do that? <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*MLMekJZF2TBNN-4x.jpg" style="height:840px; width:509px" /> <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:913/1*wV_x-i2AWYvgCMpttA-QSA.png" style="height:721px; width:492px" /> Caravaggio, “Christ at the Column” (1607); Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) <h1>I’m learning only now about Caravaggio’s influence on Christianity.</h1> He was born—Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio—in Milan in 1571. Not a lot is known about him. A recent biography, by Peter Robb, begins with a <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/M_The_Caravaggio_Enigma/384JR7n7MWgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22lies+to+the+police%2C+reticence+in+court%2C+extorted+confessions%2C+forced+denunciations%22&pg=PP8&printsec=frontcover" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">warning</a> that the evidence is mostly: <a href="https://medium.com/belover/caravaggios-queer-jesus-f9621bce8842">Visit Now</a>