%0 Journal Article %T A New Mode of Relationality: Bersani and Dutoit's Caravaggio %A Tu£¿ba Ayas £¿nol %J - %D 2019 %X This paper shall focus on Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit¡¯s intriguing claim that famous Italian artist Michalengelo Merisi da Caravaggio¡¯s paintings address a new mode of relationality. In their co-authored book Caravaggio¡¯s Secrets, Bersani and Dutoit analyze the works of this radical artist from a non-anthropomorphized perspective in opposition to a psychoanalytical approach. In their meticulous study, Caravaggio became a master who depicts the subjects and their nexus to the surroundings in such a unique way that his paintings foresee new modes of sociality along with an unfamiliar relationality they present. The present study revisits Bersani and Dutoit¡¯s contentions by focusing on the three significant aspects of Caravaggio¡¯s paintings namely the soliciting gaze, the notion of center and the relationality in the paintings %K Caravaggio %K £¿li£¿kisellik %K Talepkar Bak£¿£¿ %K Merkezi Odak Nosyonu %U http://dergipark.org.tr/sduarte/issue/46834/513093