Caravaggio. The Complete Works – Plastic Books

Caravaggio. The Complete Works

Taschen

Regular price £70.00 GBP
VAT included.
In stock
Pages
306 pp.
Publisher
Taschen
Year
2015
ISBN
9783836555791
Dimensions
26.16 x 4.06 x 34.8 cm
Written by
Sebastian Schütze

With Caravaggio (1571–1610), whose real name was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, things were always intense. The notorious "Bad Boy" of Italian painting was both celebrated and feared: hot-tempered and creative, a revolutionary artist and a contentious contemporary.

This volume offers a comprehensive Caravaggio retrospective with a catalogue raisonné of his paintings. Each painting is reproduced in large format, and the latest photographic technology allows dramatic close-ups that reveal Caravaggio’s brilliant execution of details such as glances and gestures, which resemble almost cinematic staging.

Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio’s artistic development, from the struggle for survival in his early years through the triumphant public commissions in Rome to the dramatic final years in Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His daring naturalism and revolutionary pictorial inventions are illuminated, through which even biblical events are presented to the viewer with immediate urgency.

Title
Caravaggio. The Complete Works
Author
Sebastian Schütze
Publisher
Taschen
Published
2015
Availability
In stock
Pages
306 pp.
ISBN
3836555794
ISBN-13
9783836555791
Egales Publishing
LES Editorial
Taschen Publishing
Taschen Dos Bigotes
Editorial Anagrama
Siete Islas Publishing House
Editorial Planeta
Letraversal Poetry
Blackie Books
Alfaguara Publishing House
LAVA