Caravaggio. The Complete Works. 45th Ed.

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The notorious bad boy of Italian painting is now considered one of the greatest masters in art history . This neat catalogue raisonné reproduces all of Caravaggio’s paintings as well as a number of details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five chapters assess his artistic achievements while a detailed chronology traces his dramatic personal life. ISBN 9783836587969 Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.14 kg, 512 pages A Revolution in Painting The mysterious genius who transformed European art Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. 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 edition offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire œuvre with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Each painting is reproduced 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 commiss

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