Lambert Gilles - Caravaggio - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque the artist was at once celebrated and controversial violent in temper precise in technique a creative master and a man on the run. Though famed for his dramatic use of color light and shadow it was above all Caravaggio's boundary - breaking naturalism which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a startling often visceral humanity. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied by an equally intense personal biography scored by gambling debts drunken brawls and even a murder charge. This book brings together more than 50 of Caravaggio's most famous and revolutionary works to explore how and why this artist is now considered the most important painter of the early Baroque period and one of the defining influences of art history without whom Ribera Vermeer Rembrandt Delacroix Courbet and Manet could never have painted the way they did.
Title: Caravaggio
Author(s): Lambert Gilles, Gilles Neret
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836559935
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 7/31/2015
Series: Basic Art
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs