secondhand Caravaggio Basic Art book, Taschen, Giles Lambert

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Caravaggio Basic Art (Taschen, Lambert Giles)

Title: Caravaggio Basic Art
Author: Lambert Giles
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Year: 2000
Number of pages: 96
Cover type: softcover
ISBN-13: 9783822863053
ISBN-10: 382286305X
Categories: Art History, Artists, Painting, English

A paperback volume of the luxury edition Taschen, featuring images of the works of the controversial Renaissance artist.

This is a monograph dedicated to the subversive Italian Baroque painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The book presents the life of the artist — which was filled with scandals and violent episodes — alongside his groundbreaking work. It focuses on his revolutionary chiaroscuro technique (intense contrast of light and shadow) and his theatrical realism, which deeply influenced the global history of art.

Caravaggio - A genius beyond his time
Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models were violently scorned. Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and, quite posthumously, deemed a great master. He is now considered the most important painter of the early Baroque period; without him there would have been no Ribera, Zurburan, Velazquez, Vermeer or Georges de la Tour. Franz Hals, Rembrandt, Delacroix, and Manet would have been different. In this new book you'll find over 50 of Caravaggio's best paintings; we think you'll agree that he was a genius beyond his time.