Author: John T. Spike
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Keywords: caravaggio
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0789210592
ISBN-13: 9780789210593

Nearly every extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish, newly updated volume, the result of more than 20 years of research by a leading authority on the artist. Placing Caravaggio within the broad panorama of society and ideas at the turn of the seventeenth century, John T. Spike sets a richly detailed stage for an artist who has been called "the first modern painter." Caravaggio (1571-1610) reflected in his canvases his own desires and spiritual crises to an extent no one ever had imagined possible, and he shocked his contemporaries by portraying the saints and vir

Author: Peter Robb
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: caravaggio, man
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2001-02-10
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0312274742
ISBN-13: 9780312274740

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAs vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio’s wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological war against which, despite all odds, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes

Author: Sebastian Schutze
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
Keywords: paintings, complete, caravaggio
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 383650183X
ISBN-13: 9783836501835

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Milan 1571 Porto Ercole 1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. Few other artists have attracted such controversial and contradictory interpretations right up to modern times and to the latest art historical research.The book offers a comprehensive new examination of the whole of Caravaggio s uvre with a catalogue raisonée of his works. Five introductory chapters analyse his artistic

Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: preposterous, history, art, contemporary, caravaggio, quoting
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226035573
ISBN-13: 9780226035574

As period, as style, as sensibility, the Baroque remains elusive, its definition subject to dispute. Perhaps this is so in part because baroque vision resists separation of mind and body, form and matter, line and color, image and discourse. In Quoting Caravaggio, Mieke Bal deploys this insight of entanglement as a form of art analysis, exploring its consequences for both contemporary and historical art, as well as for current conceptions of history.Mieke Bals primary object of investigation in Quoting Caravaggio is not the great seventeenth-century painter, but rather the issue of temporality

Authors:Howard Hibbard, Shirley G. Hibbard,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: editions, icon, caravaggio
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1985-03-06
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0064301281
ISBN-13: 9780064301282

Authors:Gilles Lambert, Gilles Neret,
Publisher: Taschen
Keywords: series, art, basic, taschen, caravaggio
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 382286305X
ISBN-13: 9783822863053

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Michelangelo Mirisi de Caravaggio lived a life riddled with crime and scandal, producing a body of work that wouldn’t be appreciated until centuries after his mysterious death. Though his body was never found, he

Authors:Giorgio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, Giovanni Pietro
Publisher: Pallas Athene
Keywords: lives, series, caravaggio, artists
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0952998688
ISBN-13: 9780952998686

The Lives of Caravaggio is comprised of the earliest three biographies of the Italian Baroque master, revealing how his revolutionary painting and tempestuous character fascinated and appalled his contemporaries. With 20 color reproductions.In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571– 1610) revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe and still resonates today. Almost everything we know about his life comes from these three early biographies, and they reflect the often horrified fascination that Ca