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Caravaggio: Master of Light and Dark--His Life in Paintings

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The main reason why I purchased this book was to assist me in viewing this artist's complete works when reading other mainstream books about Caravaggio, namely: 'Caravaggio: A Passionate Life' and 'M' - both excellent books. The colour plates were lovely and each had detailed text to assist you in your studies of his work. This is a nice and easy to read guide book to this artists beautiful work. The narrative provides enough detail about Caravaggio's life and work to give you the basic idea but do not expect a detailed account, you will have to look elsewhere. Overall this a quick reference guide and is well worth a look.

I purchased this book while reading "M - the Man Who Became Caravaggio". "M" has almost no pictures and I was looking for a good source of his works. There is no index of works in this books, so I spent a lot of time thumbing back and forth trying to find paintings. Also, a few of the works discussed in "M" don't appear here. I enjoyed the format in which the paintings are presented, except for a couple of instances where a detail of a painting was shown, but not the whole painting.

The layout of the book is superior; where it falls short is that it mentions too many other painters. I would have preferred that all of the plates were Carvaggio's. I understand wanting to put them in context, but I would have preferred less emphasis in other places.

This book is useful because, I found a wide range of information about Caravaggio (historical info, pics)in few pages.

This is very interesting because the writer is an historic researcher