Narcissus Painting. The painting was originally attributed to caravaggio by roberto longhi in 1916. Dali intended this painting to be viewed while reading his poem on the same subject and to be regarded in a state of distracted fixation whereby the image would disappear as it was being watched.
The work by contemporary. Offering the promise of spring the narcissus is known in chinese as the water goddess shuixian or the goddess who stands above the. Caravaggio uses this to entirely obscure the background.
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The painting was originally attributed to caravaggio by roberto longhi in 1916. Caravaggio uses this to entirely obscure the background. Narcissus is a painting by the italian baroque master caravaggio painted circa 1597 1599. Caravaggio s narcissus is an exemplary showcase of his tenebrism the strong contrast between very dark and very bright spaces in a painting.