Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), known as Caravaggio, after his home town in Lombardy, was arguably not only the finest painter of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods, but one of the great artists of all time. He must also rank among the most revolutionary of those who, from time to time, have sought to overthrow established artistic orthodoxy through a return to, or strengthening of, naturalism. His two principal innovations - his use of chiaroscuro and his practice of painting directly from posed models- imbued his picturesque genre scenes of cardsharps and fortunetellers and his groundbreaking religious paintings, so redolent of the spirit of the Counter Reformation, with an intense, crisply etched presence. While his capricious character, aggressive behavior, and bohemian way of life have intrigued the modern imagination, fueling the notion of him as an embattled outsider who channeled the complexities of his own make-up into an assertively iconoclastic art. In this new edition of his authoritative text, which places Caravaggio?s achievement squarely within the cultural and religious contexts of his time, John Gash has incorporated several recent documentary and pictorial discoveries. The book illustrates most of Caravaggio?s surviving paintings, executed in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the majority of them in color.
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John Gash is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Aberdeen and a specialist in Baroque art. He has published extensively on Caravaggio and his followers and is currently preparing a book on Caravaggism.
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Excellent brief biography and large plates of Caravaggio.,
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Gash gives an excellent description of the period in which Caravaggio worked and biography of his life. There are fifteen large (10"x15") high quality plates (thumbs up for the publisher) that are representative of Caravaggio's work. Gash also gives informative details about each of the paintings depicted in the plates. Due to the brevity of the book, Gash has also given an exhaustive list of further readings on Caravaggio
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THAT CARAVAGGIO'S ACHIEVEMENT as an artist in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is now well recogni/ed is in great part due to the pioneering researches of a small band of dedicated scholars, including Roberto Longhi and Denis Mahon, whose systematic and frequently brilliant work on matters of attribution has led, during the past hundred years, to the establishment, out of a tiny corpus of definite works and a whole sea of misattributions, of a substantial and still expanding auvre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Gallery, Church of Santa Maria, Annibale Carracci, Cerasi Chapel, Roman Catholic, Counter Reformation, Giovanni Battista, San Luigi, Cardinal del Monte, High Renaissance, Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, Christ Child, Giovanni Rattista New!
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THAT CARAVAGGIO'S ACHIEVEMENT as an artist in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is now well recogni/ed is in great part due to the pioneering researches of a small band of dedicated scholars, including Roberto Longhi and Denis Mahon, whose systematic and frequently brilliant work on matters of attribution has led, during the past hundred years, to the establishment, out of a tiny corpus of definite works and a whole sea of misattributions, of a substantial and still expanding auvre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Gallery, Church of Santa Maria, Annibale Carracci, Cerasi Chapel, Roman Catholic, Counter Reformation, Giovanni Battista, San Luigi, Cardinal del Monte, High Renaissance, Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, Christ Child, Giovanni Rattista New!
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- Italian Painting by Kieth Christiansen in Back Matter
- National Gallery of Ireland by Raymond Keaveney on page 81
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