Caravaggio: The Complete Works - Rilegato

Schutze, Sebastian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 383650183X ISBN 13: 9783836501835

Casa editrice: Taschen America Llc, 2009

Riassunto

Sublime blasphemy? The complete œuvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting
Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. Few other artists have provoked such controversy and so many contradictory interpretations right up to modern times.

On the heels of Caravaggio year 2010, this work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire oeuvre, with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Five introductory chapters analyze his artistic career from his training in Lombard Milan and his triumphal rise in papal Rome, up to his dramatic final years in Naples, Malta, and Sicily. The spotlight thereby falls upon the radical nature and innovative force of Caravaggio’s art and its influence in all of Europe.

Our understanding of Caravaggio’s work has been substantially broadened in recent decades by major exhibitions, restoration campaigns, new attributions and archival discoveries. The new catalogue raisonné offers a detailed overview of the artist’s entire oeuvre based on the latest research. Every painting is reproduced in large-scale format, with spectacular details that offer dramatic close-ups and set new standards in print quality. A new photographic campaign has been undertaken, enabling the smallest details to be reproduced on a large scale for the first time.They reveal all the more clearly Caravaggio’s virtuosity and his enormous ability to capture the viewer’s attention and to build a communicative bridge between the worlds of picture and viewer. Sequences of spectacular details grouped by subject allow us to experience Caravaggio’s ingenious rhetoric of looks and gestures and their theatrical staging in paint.

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L'autore:

The author:
Sebastian Schütze was a longtime research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. He is a member of the academic board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples and of the Institut européen d’histoire de la République des Lettres in Paris. From 2003 to 2009 he held the Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen’s University in Kingston. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Early Modern Art History at Vienna University.

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caravaggio caravaggio, in michelangelo merisi da caravaggio (Milano 1571 - porto ercole 1610), era una leggenda anche nella propria vita. celebrato da alcuni per il suo naturalismo e la sua rivoluzionaria invenzione pittorica, era considerato da altri che hanno distrutto pittura. Questo libro esamina oeuvre da caravaggio con un catalogo raisonee delle sue opere.

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• Editore: Taschen America Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 383650183X
• ISBN 13: 9783836501835
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 306