| Caravaggio. the Complete Works Contributor(s): Schütze, Sebastian (Author) |
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ISBN: 3836555816 ISBN-13: 9783836555814 Publisher: Taschen OUR PRICE: $90.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | History - Baroque & Rococo |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 10.3" W x 13.7" (7.00 lbs) 306 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio's entire oeuvre with a catalogue raisonn of his works. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schutze, Sebastian: - Sebastian Schütze a été, pendant de nombreuses années, collaborateur scientifique à la Bibliotheca Hertziana (Institut Max-Planck de l'histoire de l'art) à Rome. Il est membre du conseil scientifique de l'Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici à Naples et membre de l'Académie autrichienne des sciences. De 2003 à 2009, il a été professeur d'histoire de l'art, occupant la Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art à la Queen's University de Kingston. Depuis 2009, il occupe la chaire d'histoire de l'art moderne à l'Université de Vienne. |