Overview
Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.
This work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire œuvre with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high production photography allowing for dramatic close-ups with Caravaggio''s ingenious details of looks and gestures.
Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio''s artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. They look at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary-breaking naturalism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.
- | Author: Sebastian Schutze
- | Publisher: Taschen GmbH
- | Publication Date: Jun 19, 2015
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9783836555814
- | ISBN-10: 3836555816
