UNICO SUONO BY FILIPPO SORCINELLI

Cardinal Francesco Maria Bourbon Del Monte, Caravaggio’s patron, in anticipation of the Holy Year 1600, presented him for the commission. The contract was signed on July 23, 1599, with the commitment to complete the works by the following summer.

UNICO SUONO, a faux-marble box, contains three small pouches. It speaks first through sight and touch.

Three fabrics that synesthetically recall those represented in each canvas: velvet, linen, wool with silk.

Three, like the pictorial cycle. Three scents as a synthesis of Caravaggio’s poetics: Light. The painting of man. The Divine.

LA LUMIÈRE – The beam of light as a moment of creation. Unexpected. It cuts and cleanses, it illuminates because there is darkness. It smells of velvet, moving with its grace.

PEINTURE D’HOMME – The humanity of a silent gaze. Violent truth. Disordered flesh.

LE DIVIN – A silent dictation. A distant listening. In restlessness, I seek the Divine.