Caravaggio

Gilles Lambert, Gilles Néret

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TACHYON
30 September 2015

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Baroque; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Basic Art

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 his 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.

By: Gilles Lambert
Edited by: Gilles Néret
Imprint: TACHYON
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9783836559935
ISBN 10: 3836559935
Series: Basic Art
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 30 September 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gilles Lambert (1928-2011) was born in Paris, but spent his whole life between the capitals Rome and Paris. He translated a number of works on the Seicento from the Italian. With Andre Labarthe, he founded the journal Constellation in the 1950s, and subsequently worked for Le Figaro Litteraire and Paris Match. He wrote monographs on Auguste Mariette and Caravaggio.

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