Caravaggio. the Complete Works
TASCHEN · Print & ebook · June 19, 2015
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- Who it’s for
- Follow Caravaggio’s daring naturalism through close attention to light, gesture, and artistic ambition.
- Themes
- Caravaggio's artistic career, Lighting and naturalism in painting, Biblical scenes in art
- Genres
- Artist Monographs, Artists' Lives, Baroque & Rococo Art History
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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.
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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.
Light and Looking
Follow Caravaggio’s daring naturalism through close attention to light, gesture, and artistic ambition.
Come here for
- A fresh look at a celebrated, controversial painter
- Close-ups that bring ingenious details into view
Expect
- Five chapters tracing his artistic career
- A catalogue raisonn e9 of his works
Where it sits
| Artist Monographs | 75% |
|---|---|
| Baroque & Rococo Art History | 52% |
| Artists' Lives | 50% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- European Art
- Baroque & Rococo Art History
- Studying Artists
- Artist Monographs
- Authors
- Sebastian Schütze
- Publisher
- TASCHEN
- Published
- June 19, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Caravaggio's artistic career · Lighting and naturalism in painting · Biblical scenes in art
- Reading lane
- European Art