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Caravaggio, 1571-1610: A Genius Beyond His Time

Door Gilles Lambert

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#340032-WD15
Titel
Caravaggio, 1571-1610: A Genius Beyond His Time
Auteur
Lambert, Gilles
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Köln : Taschen
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
3836559935
ISBN13
9783836559935
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, illustrations in colour, small 4to.
Samenvatting
Caravaggio was a force to be reckoned with. Precise in technique, violent in temper, the notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque is now considered one of the greatest artistic influences of all time. This book presents an accessible introduction to the life and times of the dramatic master, exploring Caravaggio's most famous and revolutionary works alongside his equally intense biography.

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

Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio's boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched hi
... (Lees verder)s name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a startling, often visceral humanity. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied by an equally intense personal biography, scored by gambling, debts, drunken brawls, and even a murder charge.

This book brings together more than 50 of Caravaggio's most famous and revolutionary works to explore how and why this artist is now considered the most important painter of the early Baroque period and one of the defining influences of art history, without whom Ribera, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, and Manet could never have painted the way they did.
Pagina's
95
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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