ISBN: | 9783836562867 |
Publisher: | Taschen |
Published: | 15 January, 2017 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. 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 Bibliotheca Universalis edition offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio's entire oeuvre with a catalogue raisonne of his works. Each painting is reproduced 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 elebrity status. They look at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary breaking realism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.
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