Год выпуска: 2015 Автор: Sebastian Schutze Издательство: Taschen Страниц: 306 ISBN: 978-3-8365-5581-4
Описание
Caravaggio, or More Accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 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 Realism Which Allowed Even Biblical Events to Unfold with an Unprecedented Immediacy Before the Viewer. An Accompanying Artist Chronology Follows...
