Caravaggio. The Complete Works
100Availability: In Stock“The pictures come across as so real that leafing through this book, the reader almost smells the oil paint. Every page is a pleasure for the senses.”
“This book is an artwork unto itself—perfect for Italian Renaissance aficionados.”
“The reproductions are excellent, the details often breathtakingly vivid..."
Caravaggio. The Complete Works
100A revolution in painting
The mysterious genius who transformed European art
This work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire œuvre with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high production photography allowing for dramatic close-ups with Caravaggio's ingenious details of looks and gestures.
Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio's artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. They look at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary-breaking naturalism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.
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 a member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 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.
Caravaggio. The Complete Works
Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3.19 kg, 306 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-5580-7
Edition: FrenchISBN 978-3-8365-5581-4
Edition: English4.9