Caravaggio -

Howard Hibbard

Thames and Hudson

1983

404 páginas

13h 28m

ISBN-13: 9780064301282

Caravaggio is perhaps the most importante European painter of the entire seventeenth century. His paintings speak to us more personally and more poignantly than those of his contemporaries and he was the only Italian painter of the period to rely more on his own feelings than on artistic tradition, while at the same time remaining within the great mainstream of the Renaissance.
In this classic study - an essential work for everyone studying the period - Howard Hibbard evaluates the work of Caravaggio: notorious as a painter-assassin, hailed by many as an original interpreter of the scriptures, a man whose exploration of nature has been likened to the achievements of Galileo. With its lucid text, copious notes and wealth of illustrations, this is, as Sir Lawrence Gowing has written, 'the one book on Caravaggio that no one will be able to do without'.