As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio’s art are multiple and variable. Art historians from the UK and North America offer new or recently updated interpretations of the works of seventeenth-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and of his many followers known as the Caravaggisti. The volume deals with all the major aspects of Caravaggio’s paintings: technique, creative process, religious context, innovations in pictorial genre and narrative, market strategies, biography, patronage, reception, and new hermeneutical trends.
The concluding section tackles the essential question of Caravaggio’s legacy and the production of his followers-not only in terms of style but from some highly innovative strategies:
| ISBN: | 9781409406846 |
| Publication date: | 28th June 2014 |
| Author: | Lorenzo Pericolo |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Series: | Visual Culture in Early Modernity |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics |
As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio’s art are multiple and variable. Art historians from the UK and North America offer new or recently updated interpretations of the works of seventeenth-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and of his many followers known as the Caravaggisti.
Caravaggio features in the following genres: The arts: general topics
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Caravaggio was written by Lorenzo Pericolo and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Caravaggio has 392 pages
Yes it is part of Visual Culture in Early Modernity series
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