Caravaggio. The Complete Works

ISBN-13: 9783836555814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 306 str.

Sebastian Schutze

Opis

Realist revolutionary: The painter who brought the heavenly down to earth Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with.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 raisonnE 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 realism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer. An accompanying artist chronology follows Caravaggio's equally tumultous personal life, tracing his history of debts, gambling, drunken brawls, and murder.

Recenzje

"Ein Katalog mit erstklassigen ganzseitigen Farbdrucken sämtlicher Hauptwerke von Caravaggio." Royal Academy Magazine

O autorze

Sebastian Schütze war wissenschaftlicher Assistent an der Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte) in Rom. Er ist Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates des Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Neapel und Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. In den Jahren 2003-2009 lehrte er als Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art an der Queen's University in Kingston. Seit 2009 hat er einen Lehrstuhl für Neuere Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Wien inne.