Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) always moved between opposite poles . The bad boy of the Italian Baroque was a figure both admired and controversial, a revolutionary artist with a violent temperament and precise technique, a teacher, a fugitive.
Although famous for his vibrant use of color, light and shadow, Caravaggio will go down in the annals of art history for the groundbreaking naturalism he imprinted on his works and his radical pictorial innovations . From the dirty soles of the feet to the sensual languor of bare flesh, the artist infused an astonishing, often visceral, humanity even into biblical and sacred scenes. To this expressive creative universe must be added an intense personal biography, dominated by gambling addiction, debts, drunken brawls and even a murder charge.
This book brings together the most famous and revolutionary works by Caravaggio , which explain why this artist is currently considered one of the most important of the early baroque and what his relevance has been in the history of art. Without his work other authors such as Ribera, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet and Manet would never have painted as they did.
Author: Gilles Neret
Binding: Hardcover
Format: 21 x 26 cm
Pages: 96
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