Caravaggio. the Complete Works [Spanish]

By SCHUTZE(555791) and Sebastian Sch�tze

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.

This work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio's entire oeuvre with a catalogue raisonn of his works. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high production photography allowing for dramatic close-ups with Caravaggio's ingenious details of looks and gestures.

Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio's artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. They look at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary-breaking naturalism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 3836555794
• ISBN13: 9783836555791
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 7.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 10.3" x 13.7"