Caravaggio: Colour Library - Softcover

Wilson-Smith, Timothy

 
9780714834856: Caravaggio: Colour Library

Synopsis

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original artist who led a short and violent life. His sexually provocative nude figures and his dramatic religious paintings have a psychological power and an undiminished capacity to shock and disturb after almost four centuries.

Timothy Wilson-Smith provides a lively and readable biography of an artist who has become an iconic figure in the late twentieth century, and presents a memorable selection of his works, from his early genre pictures to the dark and intense religious paintings of his years in exile.

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Review

On the Colour Library Series

"Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers."―Independent

"Phaidon’s excellent Colour Library series: [...] a good introduction to nearly 50 key artists and movements in art history."―Antiques Trade Gazette

Synopsis

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original painter who led a short and violent life. The powerful realism of his figures upset many of his contemporaries, and their power to shock remains undiminished. This book, providing a biography, presents all his most famous masterpieces, each with a commentary. The introduction gives an account of his wayward life and his artistic development. Controversial in his own lifetime, and neglected after his death, Caravaggio has re-emerged both as a great master and as something of a cult figure, the subject of a notable film by Derek Jarman.

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