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Caravaggio

The Complete Works

By: Rossella Vodret Adamo

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Caravaggio

The Complete Works

By: Rossella Vodret Adamo

Presents the works of the Italian painter along with an analysis of his skills and a portrait of his life.

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Silvana Editoriale

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8836622356

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9788836622351

Biography of Caravaggio

By: Peter Robb,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Biography of Caravaggio

By: Peter Robb,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Robb's extraordinary book about the great Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio is being reprinted for the exhibition of the artist's work that opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in November and later moves to Melbourne. The book contains dozens of pictures. This will be a cheaper edition than before (the notes have been removed) and will have an insert giving page references to pictures in the exhibition.'Written with the urgency of a detective novel – compulsively readable.' – John McDonald, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD'A book that recreates the mirror Caravaggio held up to nature with singular delicacy as well as passion and panache.' – Hilary Spurling, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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527

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1876631791

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9781876631796

Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals

By: Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals

By: Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Gilbert devotes separate discussions to the Marquis and to Cardinal Mattei in developing his argument that each of them influenced Caravaggio in different ways. A collector of classical sculpture, the Marquis is connected to the classical mythological themes that are here identified in specific paintings. A study of Cardinal Mattei indicates that he was outstandingly devout, which was true of only a small number of cardinals during the period. Gilbert shows that the artist's two paintings for the Cardinal alter the previous patterns of representing their religious themes, in ways related to Counter-Reformation ideas. Scholars have long searched for the specific religious figure who inspired this quality in Caravaggio's work, resolved here by Gilbert's meticulous scholarship and carefully drawn connections.

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347

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Penn State Press

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0271013125

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9780271013121

Caravaggio

Realism, Rebellion, Reception

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio

Realism, Rebellion, Reception

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

This volume considers Caravaggio's revolutionary realism from a range of perspectives, presenting new avenues for research by a plurality of leading scholars. First, it advances our understanding of Caravaggio's relationship with the new science of observation championed by Galileo. Second, it examines afresh the theoretical nature and artistic means of Caravaggio's seemingly direct realism. Third, it extends the horizons of research on Caravaggio's complex intellectual and social milieu between high and low cultures. Genevieve Warwick is Senior Lecturer in the Art History department at the University of Glasgow.

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154

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University of Delaware Press

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ISBN 10

0874139368

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9780874139365

Caravaggio, 1571-1610

By: Gilles Lambert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio, 1571-1610

By: Gilles Lambert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Michelangelo Mirisi de Caravaggio lived a life riddled with crime and scandal, producing a body of work that wouldn't be appreciated until centuries after his mysterious death. Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to that of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini who was, like Caravaggio, a homosexual. Caravaggio's reputation was decidedly poor during his lifetime; sometimes rich, sometimes penniless, when he wasn't in prison he was running away from the police or his enemies. Perhaps no other painter has suffered such injustice: his works were often attributed to more respected painters while he was given the credit for just about anything vulgar painted in the chiaroscuro style. Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and, quite posthumously, deemed a great master.

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Taschen America Llc

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382286305X

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9783822863053

The Library of Great Masters

Caravaggio

By: Giorgio Bonsanti,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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The Library of Great Masters

Caravaggio

By: Giorgio Bonsanti,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1570 or 1571, in Caravaggio in Lombardy, and moved to Rome in 1592, when he was in his 20s. His earliest influences were Lombard art, a style which has been noted for its realism. The relation between objects and natural and artificial light, which is an important feature of Caravaggio's work, was assimilated from this local tradition. The author examines the life and work of this innovative artist, including the Supper in Emmaus and the Beheading of the Baptist."--Amazon

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Riverside Book Company

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1878351079

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9781878351074

Caravaggio

Realism, Rebellion, Reception

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Realism, Rebellion, Reception

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio

Painter of Miracles

By: Francine Prose

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Caravaggio

Painter of Miracles

By: Francine Prose

Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged—was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time. Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) moved to Rome when he was twenty-one years old. He became a brilliant and successful artist, protected by the influential Cardinal del Monte and other patrons. But he was also a man of the streets who couldn't seem to free himself from its brawls and vendettas. In 1606 he fled Rome, apparently after killing another man in a dispute. He spent his last years in exile, in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, at once celebrated for his art and tormented by his enemies. Through it all, he produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. Eventually he received a pardon from the Pope, only to die, in mysterious circumstances, on the way back to Rome in 1610. Francine Prose presents the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all painters with passion and acute sensitivity.

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163

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Harper Collins

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0060575603

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9780060575601

Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals

By: Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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By: Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Penn State Press

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0271013125

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9780271013121

Caravaggio's Eye

By: Clovis Whitfield

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Caravaggio's Eye

By: Clovis Whitfield

This book concentrates on a few crucial years of Caravaggio's development, in order to cast light on what made the artist such a revolutionary figure. It argues that this revolution was one of technique rather than style, and involved the sophisticated use of a camera obscura and so-called 'burning' or parabolic mirrors, exploiting new advances in glassmaking and optics. Because the results Caravaggio obtained by his new methods were so different he created a sensation, although these innovations were rapidly assimilated and the artistic establishment worked successfully to restore their way of doing things, so that the true novelty of his art in the 1590s has been obscured. Clovis Whitfield uses a lifetime of study of the period to discuss not only Caravaggio's technology but also his patronage and cultural context, the Rome of Clement VIII, concentrating particularly on Caravaggio's homosexual patron Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte and analysing the taste and role of his other early supporters as well. Whitfield's Caravaggio was the son of a bricklayer, untrained in traditional artistic disciplines, who instead took the dramatic step of painting exactly what he saw with his reproductive aids. Galileo's hypothesis drawn from observation and Caravaggio's novel description of what he saw were, according to Whitfield, parallel attempts to explain features of the many-layered reality that surrounds us. The book features remarkable new photographs and especially details of Caravaggio's paintings and those of his followers and rivals that will dramatically refresh hackneyed perceptions of this crucial figure and his world. "This revolutionary book will transform studies of the renegade 'people's artist'." Art Quarterly, Spring 2012

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1907372105

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9781907372100

The First Medusa

Caravaggio

By: Mina Gregori,Maurizio Marini,Maurizio Serracini

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The First Medusa

Caravaggio

By: Mina Gregori,Maurizio Marini,Maurizio Serracini

This stunning book reveals how a version of the Medusa in private hands has been newly attributed to Caravaggio (1571-1610). The similarity of the work, and its frame, to the better-known version at the Uffizi in Florence attracted the attention of experts. X-rays and new technologies eventually confirmed that this version was the original. Here, the results of historical and technological research are accompanied by superb illustrations and close-ups of the painting, the X-rays, and more, enabling art lovers the opportunity to appreciate this previously neglected work.

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160

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5Continents

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8874395825

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9788874395828

Caravaggio's Rome

1600-1630

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio's Rome

1600-1630

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio was an unquestioned genius who eclipsed all other artists of his time. But just who were these fellow travellers? Bringing together 200 works from world collections, Caravaggios Rome is the first work to reconstruct the connective tissue of the Eternal City where the great genius lived and worked.

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8857213870

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9788857213873

Masters of Art

Caravaggio

By: Alfred Moir

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Masters of Art

Caravaggio

By: Alfred Moir

A discussion of the life of the artist is accompanied by reproductions and critical analyses of his major painting.

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Harry N. Abrams

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0810931508

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9780810931503

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

documenti, fonti, e inventari 1513-1875

By: Stefania Macioce

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

documenti, fonti, e inventari 1513-1875

By: Stefania Macioce

Second revised, updated and enlarged edition of Caravaggio documents. Three documentary sections permit the reader to trace the artistic production and historic events of Caravaggio's life. The first section is composed of 1100 archival documents (as compared to the 700 records collated in the first edition). These span the earliest references to the Merisi family in the mid-sixteenth century, to the last records concerning the history of individual paintings in the mid-nineteenth century. The second section is composed of transcriptions of the most important biographic records and descriptions of the artists work. In the third section, a close reading of seventeenth and eighteenth century inventories of notable Roman and European collections allows us to trace the individual history of every Caravaggio painting.

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579

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Ugo Bozzi Editore

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8870030474

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9788870030471

Caravaggio's Rome: Works

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio's Rome: Works

By: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

By: Andrew Graham-Dixon

In the tradition of John Richardson's Picasso, a commanding new biography of the Italian master's tumultuous life and mysterious death. For four hundred years Caravaggio's (1571-1610) staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory-the murder of Ranuccio Tomasini, the doubt surrounding Caravaggio's sexuality, the chain of events that began with his imprisonment on Malta and ended with his premature death-has long confounded historians. In a bravura performance, Andrew Graham-Dixon delves into the original Italian sources, presenting fresh details about Caravaggio's sex life, his many crimes and public brawls, and the most convincing account yet published of the painter's tragic death at the age of thirty-eight. With illuminating readings of Caravaggio's infamous religious paintings, which often depict prostitutes and poor people, Graham-Dixon immerses readers in the world of Italy at the height of the Counter-Reformation and creates a masterful profile of the mercurial painter's life and work.

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514

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W. W. Norton

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0393081494

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9780393081497

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