Caravaggio in 3D!
Tableaux vivantes (living pictures) are an art form that dates to the middle ages. In these, live humans (often amateurs) would depict a famous scene from the Bible or or from a famous painting, complete with sets and dramatic lighting. They were usually static (a snapshot before the era of cameras). They became popular in the Victorian USA and UK, as amateurs could show their pious nature by depicting Jesus and the disciples, the Virgin Mary, the Last Supper, etc. A less pious advantage was that 19th century law in both the USA and UK allowed public nudity on the stage as long as the actors remained motionless--so tableaux vivantes was also an early version of legal porn. Tableaux vivantes have mostly died out, but returned in a few movies like Derik Jarman's erotic Caravaggio (1986), in which the famed Baroque painter's violent life is intertwined with tableaux vivantes of some of his famed paintings. Intriguingly, this device was recently brought to the live stage in Li