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Caravaggio (Hardcover)
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Caravaggio (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Art Series
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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. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art
Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever
published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a
detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the
artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a
concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory
captions
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