45th Edition Caravaggio. The Complete Works. Ed.

Bol

The notorious bad boy of Italian painting is now considered one of the greatest masters in art history. This neat catalogue raisonné reproduces all of Caravaggio’s paintings as well as a number of details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five chapters assess his artistic achievements while a detailed chronology traces his dramatic personal life. 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 edition offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire œuvre with a catalogue raisonné 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 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.

Westwing

De beruchte schurk van de Italiaanse schilderkunst wordt tegenwoordig erkend als een van de grootste meesters in de kunstgeschiedenis. Deze heldere catalogue reproduceert alle schilderijen van Caravaggio en een aantal details van zijn grensverleggend realisme. Zijn artistieke prestaties worden geëerd in vijf hoofdstukken en zijn een gedetailleerde chronologie zijn dramatische privéleven. - Auteur: Sebastian Schütze - Hardcover met 512 pagina's - Taal: Engels - Uitgever: TASCHEN Gemaakt in Oostenrijk

Stumpel

The notorious bad boy of Italian painting is now considered one of the greatest masters in art history. This neat catalogue raisonné reproduces all of Caravaggio?s paintings as well as a number of details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five chapters assess his artistic achievements while a detailed chronology traces his dramatic personal life.