Caravaggio - Sebastian Schutze (Hardcover)

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Barcode: 9783836555814

Department: Books

Released: 19 Aug 2015

Supply Source: UK

Book

Authors: Sebastian Schutze
Sebastian, Dr Schutze

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Language: English

Number of Pages: 306

Dimensions: 371 x 272mm (4.31kg)

Annotation

This title offers a comprehensive examination of the whole of Caravaggio's ¶uvre with a catalogue raisonâee of his works. Five introductory chapters analyse his artistic career from his training in Lombard Milan and his triumphal rise in papal Rome up tohis dramatic final years in Naples, Malta and Sicily.

Summary

Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, now considered one of the greatest influences in all of art history. This comprehensive catalogue raisonné reproduces all of Caravaggio's paintings as well as a number of dramatic details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five chapters assess Caravaggio's artistic daring, while a detailed chronology traces...

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General Subject: Art

BISAC Subject 1: Art / Individual Artists / Monographs

BISAC Subject 2: Art / Individual Artists / General

BISAC Subject 3: Art / Individual Artists / General

BISAC Subject 4: Art / Individual Artists / Monographs

BISAC Subject 5: Architecture / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)

BIC Classification 1: Renaissance art

BIC Classification 2: Individual artists, art monographs

Library Subject 1: Painting, Italian - Catalogues raisonnaes - 16th century

Library Subject 2: Painting, Italian - Catalogues raisonnaes - 17th century

Dewey Classification: 709

Author Bio

Sebastian Sch tze was a longtime research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. He is a member of the academic board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and a corresponding member of the sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. From 2003 to 2009 he held the Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University in Kingston. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Early Modern Art History at Vienna University.