Louis Marin, from To Destroy Painting
Caravaggio fails at telling a story (cf. Giulio Mancini quote)
"When it comes to the highest position in the hierarchy of genres of paintings--historical paintings--Caravaggio is a failure. And his failure is explained in terms of the kind of space that is peculiar to him, his special use of light and shadow, his particular mode of painting." (150)
Poussin says that Caravaggio came into the world to destroy painting
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