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Caravaggio - The Complete Works (Paperback)
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Dramatic shifts from foreboding dark to probing light, with minimal
gradation in between; a realism that exposes all the flaws and
folds of human flesh, eschewing Michelangelo's idealized bodies; a
surgical explication of almost unbearably tense emotion; and the
poised depiction of crucial moments at the very lip of their
unfolding: these were among the innovations of Michelangelo Merisi,
known as Caravaggio. Without them, as the great Italian art writer
Roberto Longhi once noted, "Ribera, Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt
could never have existed... and the art of Delacroix, Courbet and
Manet would have been utterly different." It was Longhi who rescued
Caravaggio's painting for the twentieth century, prior to which it
had lain dormant since the painter's mysterious death in 1610.
During Caravaggio's lifetime, however, his work was enormously
influential and controversial. Each of his innovations in some way
upset the prevailing tendencies of the day--not least when his
insistence on physical realism led him to paint Saint Matthew as a
bald peasant with dirty legs (attended upon by an irreverently
intimate boy angel). Nonetheless, Caravaggio was never short of
commissions or patrons, and left to posterity around 80
masterpieces. This monograph is published on the fourth centenary
of Caravaggio's death, and documents his complete paintings in
high-quality reproductions. Authored by renowned scholar Rossella
Vodret, it is the must-have monograph on the artist.
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was born in 1571 and made
his debut in 1600 with two public commissions on the theme of Saint
Matthew. He soon became notorious for his temper, and killed a
young man in 1606; two further contretemps in Malta and Naples are
recorded--the latter, in 1609, involving an attempt on his
life--and by 1610 he was dead, after a brief but extraordinary
career.
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