TENNIS – Since 2005 Cees de Bondt has been engaged in research into a mysterious painting by Caravaggio entitled The Death of Hyacinth, which shows two semi-nude figures, the God Apollo and his male lover Hyacinth, and two rackets.
After some nine years of research into The Death of Hyacinth painting an increasing number of art scholars that I contact for their opinion tend to support my interpretation that the production of the picture was sparked by Caravaggio’s famous tennis match of 1606.
Follow me on this quest for the hidden identity of the painting. The story will be “served” out to you in sequels, unfolding itself as a whodunit, and following a trail that is full of twists and turns.
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