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Caravaggio, 1571-1610 (Art Albums)

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Purchased this paperback in Italy for its illustrations: good color quality, included close-ups. It was also light and easy to carry as we searched on foot for Caravaggios. Ended up being a very disappointing and even frustrating read both stylistically and in terms of content. We'll be purchasing Catherine Puglisi's Caravaggio now that we're back home. I most definitely wouldn't have purchased this after coming home but it served its purpose over in Italy.

This is a fine, glossy volume, a must for any Caravaggio fan. It features fantastic prints of Caravaggio's paintings; beautiful, glossy double page spreads for some of the more well known paintings. A simple biography of the artist as well as some basic art analysis. Just a beautiful book, one I'm proud to own for the beautifully printed paintings, if nothing else.

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. Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and, quite posthumously, deemed a great master. He is now considered the most important painter of the early Baroque period; without him there would have been no Ribera, Zurburán, Velázquez, Vermeer or Georges de la Tour. Franz Hals, Rembrandt, Delacroix, and Manet would have been different. In this new book you'll find over 50 of Caravaggio's best paintings; we think you'll agree that he was a genius beyond his time.