Caravaggio's Cardsharps: Trickery and Illusion

by Helen Langdon

The Cardsharps, one of the paintings that launched Caravaggio's spectacular career in Rome, captured the turbulent social reality of the city in the 1590s. This early masterpiece not only documented one of the everyday activities of Rome's citizens, but its vivid, lifelike style also opened the door to a revolutionary naturalism that would spread throughout Europe.

Helen Langdon, the scholar whose illuminating Caravaggio: A Life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300185103
• ISBN13: 9780300185102
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Kimbell Art Museum
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.5" x 9.4"