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400 years after the death of Caravaggio, some of the worlds most illustrious art historians comment on an extraordinary collection of 25 of his works.
Making full use of new research and dramatic recent discoveries, Catherine Puglisi explores the life and times of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and presents all of his works in color. 230 illustrations, 220 in color.
This book presents the following contents - In search of the Artist; Essencial Features of Caravaggio's Art; Inset - The Imitation of Nature, the Ideal, and the Hierarchy of Genres; Arrangements of Objects and Figures; Inset - Caravaggio and the Grapes of Zeuxis; Caravaggio's contribution to Genre-painting; Inset - On Deciphering the Pictures of the Rest during the Flight into Egypt; Caravaggio as Narrator - History Paintings in Rome; The Altarpieces for Rome; The Altarpieces of Caravaggio's First Stay in Naples; On the Run in Malta and Sicily; Retrospective; Chronology.
The works of Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi (Amerighi) da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610). Composite 4 Edition.
After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592. There he started to paint with both realism and psychological analysis of the sitters. Caravaggio was as temperamental in his painting as in his wild life. As he also responded to prestigious Church commissions, his dramatic style and his realism were seen as unacceptable. Chiaroscuro had existed well before he came on the scene, but it was Caravaggio who made the technique definitive, darkening the shadows and transfixing the subject in a blinding shaft of light. His influence was immense, firstly through those who were more or less directly his disciples. Famous during his lifetime, Caravaggio had a great influence upon Baroque art. The Genoese and Neapolitan Schools derived lessons from him, and the great movement of Spanish painting in the seventeenth century was connected with these schools. In the following generations the best endowed painters oscillated between the lessons of Caravaggio and the Carracci.
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