TASCHEN's coffee table book 'Caravaggio. The Complete Works' contains reproductions of all of Caravaggio's paintings and some dramatic details of his groundbreaking realism. Five chapters review Caravaggio's artistic achievements.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the infamous bad boy of Italian painting is now considered one of the greatest masters in art history. TASCHEN's coffee table book 'Caravaggio. The Complete Works' contains reproductions of all of Caravaggio's paintings and some dramatic details of his groundbreaking realism. Five chapters review Caravaggio's artistic achievements, while a detailed chronology describes his dramatic personal life.
Caravaggio, or rather Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was already a legend during his lifetime. The infamous bad boy of Italian painting was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in nature, precise in technique, a creative master and a man on the run. This XL book offers a comprehensive reappraisal of Caravaggio's entire oeuvre with a catalog raisonné of his works. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high-quality photography that allows 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, to his growing fame. They look at his increasing daring with illumination and his groundbreaking naturalism, through which even biblical events unfolded before the viewer with unprecedented immediacy.
Specifications
Title: Caravaggio. The Complete Works
Author: Sebastian Schütze
Publisher: Taschen
Format: 250 x 340 x 60 mm
Size: 306 pages
Weight: 3.19 kg
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 97838365-5814
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