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Caravaggio : the complete works
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ISBN: 9783836501835 383650183X Year: 2009 Publisher: Köln : Taschen,

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


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Caravaggio and his followers.
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ISBN: 091038617X Year: 1971 Publisher: Cleveland Cleveland museum of art


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Displacing Caravaggio : Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture
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ISBN: 3319933787 3319933779 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number of humanitarian public events? After critical reflection on these significant transfers of Caravaggio’s work, Francesco Zucconi takes Baroque art as a point of departure to guide readers through some of the most haunting and compelling images of our time. Each chapter analyzes a different form of media and explores a problem that ties together art history and humanitarian communications: from Caravaggio’s attempt to represent life itself as a subject of painting to the way bodies and emotions are presented in NGO campaigns. What emerges from this probing inquiry at the intersection of art theory, media studies and political philosophy is an original critical path in humanitarian visual culture.


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Caravaggio and the creation of modernity
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ISBN: 9781780236766 178023676X Year: 2017 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was among the great artists of the Baroque period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Considered one of the founders of modern painting, he is famous for creating a radically new kind of realistic art. He painted directly from life, without preparatory drawings, to establish a high realism in his work and a powerful and stark psychological expressiveness in his protagonists. His paintings defied conventions to such a degree that their meanings have divided critics and viewers for centuries, while inspiring generations of subsequent artists from Velazquez to Rembrandt. In this highly original study, Troy Thomas examines Caravaggio's life and art in relation to his most profound achievement: the creation of modernity. He explicitly focuses on the inherent tensions, contradictions and ambiguities in Caravaggio's art - key areas often ignored by other experts. Structured thematically and chronologically, the book begins with an in-depth look at Caravaggio's early life and works, which establish and refine his realism, his dark settings and his subtle and clever ambiguity of genre and meaning. It describes his mature religious works that eschew the theatrical stock poses and expressions of past art. Lastly, it delves into the artist's final hectic years as Caravaggio wandered from city to city in southern Italy, avoiding the papal police after a sword fight on the streets of Rome. Illustrated with sumptuous colour photographs, Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity will appeal to all those fascinated by the history of art and the work of this great Renaissance artist.


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The international Caravaggesque movement. Lists of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650
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ISBN: 0714819166 Year: 1979 Publisher: Oxford : Phaidon Press,


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Valentin de Boulogne : beyond Caravaggio
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ISBN: 9781588396020 1588396029 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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"Following Caravaggio's death in 1610, the French artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the great champions of naturalist painting. The eminent art historian Roberto Longhi honored him as "the most energetic and passionate of Caravaggio's naturalist followers . . . With discussions of nearly fifty works, representing practically all of his painted oeuvre, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio explores both the artist's superlative depictions of daily life and the tumultuous context in which they were produced . . . Rich with incident and insight, and beautifully illustrated with Valentin's complex, suggestive paintings, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio reveals a seminal artist, a practitioner of realism in the seventeenth century who prefigured the naturalistic modernism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet two centuries later." -- Book jacket.


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The moment of Caravaggio
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ISBN: 9780691147017 0691147019 Year: 2010 Volume: [2010] XXXV, 51 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press


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Caravaggio and pictorial narrative : dislocating the Istoria in early modern painting
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ISBN: 9781905375486 1905375484 Year: 2011 Volume: 1 Publisher: London : Harvey Miller Publishers,

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A very important part of Caravaggios production consists of pictorial narratives, mostly religious. Thus, according to early modern aesthetics, Caravaggio practiced the artistic genre of the istoria: the most discussed and thoroughly defined pictorial institution of his time. Unanimously, seventeenth-century artists and art theorists censored and condemned Caravaggios art for its numerous deficiencies and faults in regard to the principles of the istoria. In spite of all these testimonies, Caravaggios innovations in and misuses of the techniques specific to early modern pictorial narrative have never been systematically studied, debated, and put into historical perspective. In this volume, Lorenzo Pericolo argues that Caravaggios multiple experimentations with the traditional devices of the istoria not only represent the core of an unprecedented "poetics of dislocation," but also unsettled, dismantled, and expanded the scope of pictorial narrative in ways that would have redefined and deeply transformed the concept of painting and artistic creation, had Caravaggios enterprise not have been ferociously criticized and stigmatized as both aberrant and defective. To solidly establish the importance and groundbreaking charge of Caravaggios work, Pericolo examines the notion of Leon Battista Albertis istoria as interpreted and developed by early modern artists and theoristsfrom Leonardo to Vasari, from Lomazzo to Poussin, and from Michelangelo to Belloriin vast surveys in which the concepts of diachrony, duration, eurythmy, propriety, verisimilitude, and pictorial truth among othersare carefully examined on a theoretical and practical level. By analyzing the paintings of Caravaggios followers such as Cecco del Caravaggio, Battistello Caracciolo, Valentin de Boulogne and, not least, Diego Velázquez, Pericolo explores how Caravaggios innovations in the domain of pictorial narrative were variously construed, elaborated upon, and brought to fruition in the aftermath of the masters death in 1610, thereby offering a critical explanation of the implosion and extinction of the Caravaggesque movement in the 1630s. Among the flood of recent books devoted to Caravaggio, whose popularity now stands at the zenith, Lorenzo Pericolos profound and passionate study stands out for its sensitive and learned presentation of an argument that is both historically true and critically revealing to present-day sensibilities. Thoroughly at home in the vast literature devoted to Baroque art in general and to Caravaggio in particular, Pericolo also brings to his subject an unrivaled understanding of modern theoretical techniques on the one hand, and, on the other, an unrivaled mastery of seventeenth-century artistic theory, profoundly based in Aristotelian poetics and in rhetorical techniques. Through extended close readings of Caravaggios paintings, arranged in roughly chronological order, Pericolo brilliantly teases out the theoretical and practical choices that confronted Caravaggio, and that further determined reception of his work, both in the positive and negative senses, by highly sophisticated contemporary audiences. Beyond this, Pericolo is a remarkably sensitive guide to Caravaggios expression of profound, wrenching and often painful, emotions caught in eternal suspension, the sources of both his contemporaries discomfort and our own, modern, recognition and appreciation. Truly a distinguished achievement, this book is required reading for general readers as well as specialists in the history of art.

Painters of reality : the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy : [exhibition, Cremona, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, February 14 - May 2, 2004, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 27 - August 15, 2004]

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