Geronimo Cristobal

Tag: Caravaggio

  • Doubting Thomas, an Easter Egg

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    The Feast of the Resurrection has just passed and now its time to return to work and to Manila traffic. I find myself going back to old emails. In them, I notice Vince Rafael’s last email and the profile picture he once used: a detail from The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio. It feels,…

  • Sudden Death (Alvaro Enrigue, 2016)

    Sudden Death (Alvaro Enrigue, 2016)

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    A duel between Caravaggio and Quevedo, or how a tennis match connects worlds. Since when did people actually play tennis? And since when have tennis shoes been around, today the most socially acceptable and most widespread footwear worldwide? And how did you make the balls? The Mexican author Álvaro Enrigue, born 1969 in Guadalajara, México,…