Caravaggio: The Complete Works - Hardcover

Schtze, Sebastian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3836555816 ISBN 13: 9783836555814

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2015

Synopsis

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.

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.

About this title

About 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.

Review:

“...incanta gli occhi per l’altissima qualità delle immagini e, soprattutto, per i tanti close-up sui geniali dettagli di gesti e sguardi che neanche una visione dal vero riuscirebbe a eguagliare.”

“A catalogue with first-class, full-size colour reproductions of all of Caravaggio’s principal paintings.”

“This comprehensive study showcases each painting in state-of-the-art photography, with close-ups of details, like his ability to capture emotion with the subtlest of facial expressions. The text analyses his career and his riotous life: a rag-to-riches story every bit as dramatic as Caravaggio’s art.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3836555816
• ISBN 13: 9783836555814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306