Caravaggio: Visionary ArchitectEvery extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish newly updated volume, the long-awaited result of more than twenty years of research by a leading authority on the artist. In an engaging and informed text, John T. Spike explores in detail Caravaggio's scandalous life and provocative work. Placing Caravaggio within the broad panorama of society and ideas at the turn of the 17th century, the author sets a richly detailed stage for an artist who has been called "the first modern painter." Caravaggio (1571-1610) reflected in his canvases his own desires and spiritual crises to an extent no one ever had imagined possible, and he shocked his contemporaries by portraying the saints and virgins of Christianity with the faces and bodies of his companions and lovers in Rome's demimonde. |
Contents
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION | 6 |
CHAPTER I | 13 |
CHAPTER II | 25 |
Copyright | |
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