Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Italian 1573-1610
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Michelangelo
Merisi da Caravaggio, revolutionary naturalist painter,
was born in Caravaggio near Milan, the son of a mason. He showed
his talent early and at the age of sixteen, after a brief apprenticeship
in Milan, he was studying with d'Arpino in Rome. During the
period 1592-98 Caravaggio's work was precise in contour, brightly
colored, and sculpturesque in form, like the Mannerists, but
with an added social and moral consciousness. By 1600 when he
had completed his first public commission the St. Matthew paintings
for the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, he had established
himself as an opponent of both classicism and intellectual Mannerism.
Caravaggio chose his models from the common people and set them
in ordinary surroundings, yet managed to lose neither poetry
nor deep spiritual feeling. His use of chiaroscuro – the
contrast of light and dark to create atmosphere, drama, and
emotion – was revolutionary. His light is unreal, comes
from outside the painting, and creates deep relief and dark
shadow. The resulting paintings are as exciting in their effect
upon the senses as on the intellect.
Caravaggio's art, strangely enough, was not popular with ordinary
people who saw in it a lack of reverence. It was highly appreciated
by artists of his time and has become recognized through the
centuries for its profoundly religious nature as well as for
the new techniques that has changed the art of painting. Though
Caravaggio received many commissions for religious paintings
during his short life, he led a wild and bohemian existence.
In 1606, after killing a man in a fight, he fled to Naples.
Unfortunately, he was soon in trouble again, and so was forced
to flee to Malta where, finally, after a series of precipitous
adventures, died of malaria at the age of thirty-six. His influence,
which was first seen in early seventeenth-century Italian art,
eventually spread to France, England, Spain and the Netherlands.
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the reader to delve into details of individual paintings or
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reproductions, expert commentary, and a revolutionary format,
the Rizzoli Quadrifolios is a pioneering art series.
Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard – Paperback, 404 pages Reprint edition
(February 1985) Icon (Harpe)
Reader review: Hibbard unfolds Caravaggio's life, style
and works with a firm grip , avoiding what normally bores the
uninitiated but retaining an interesting approach for those
who are well versed in the works of this 16th century genius.
He avoids a biased approach which very often taints the ever
increasing number of Caravaggio critics. Though new material
has since been published, this book still retains the requisites
of a must-to-read
A favorite of Cardinals and the Pope's portrait painter, Michael
Angelo de Caravaggio (1571-1610) had an amazingly colorful life
and career. This book takes a look at this popular Baroque artist.
16 color illustrations.
Caravaggio's
Secrets by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit – Hardcover,
140 pages (October 1998) MIT Press
Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early
portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610).
In this book, Bersani and Dutoit study Caravaggio's attempts
to move beyond the tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing
retreat as he proposed a radically new mode of connectedness:
a nonerotic sensuality relevant to the most exciting attempts
in our own time to rethink, perhaps even to reinvent community.
26 illustrations, 8 in color.
Caravaggio
(Colour Library) by Timothy Wilson-Smith – Paperback,
80 pages 1 Ed edition (December 1998) Phaidon Press Inc.
Inspired largely by Leonardo's brilliant naturalistic work for
the Sforza court in Milan, Lombard artists of the late fifteenth
century began to use direct observation to investigate the natural
world. This heritage was of considerable importance in northern
Italian art for two centuries, finding its greatest expression
in the works of Caravaggio and influencing the course of Baroque
painting in Rome and eventually elsewhere in Europe. Painters
of Reality identifies the salient characteristics of this
naturalistic strand in Lombard art. Building on the scholarship
of renowned art historian Roberto Longhi, the authors reexamine
the subject in light of subsequent literature. Essays range
from broad discussions of naturalism in Lombard paintings and
drawings (including a fresh consideration of works by Caravaggio)
to more specialized treatments of Leonardo's influence, the
schools of painting centered in Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona, and
Milan, and Caravaggio's most notable successors in northern
Italy. In addition to Leonardo and Caravaggio, masters such
as Lotto, Savoldo, Moroni, and Ceruti and other significant
but less widely known figures are represented. With its devotion
to recording the unvarnished truth of daily life, its meticulously
observed still lifes and landscapes, and its dramatic use of
highly focused light to define form, Lombard art was hugely
influential in its time and still holds much appeal today.
Caravaggio
by John T. Spike, Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, Michele
K. Spike – Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Abbeville Press; Bk & CD-Rom edition (October
2001)
For the first time nearly every extant work by Caravaggio is
reproduced in color in this lavish new volume, the long-awaited
result of more than 20 years of research by a leading authority
on the artist.
In an engaging and in formed 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.
Accompanying the book is a critical catalog on CD-ROM in which
all of Caravaggio's extant paintings, as well as lost and rejected
works, are thoroughly described. Each entry specifies the work's
medium, dimensions, location, and provenance, and provides an
annotated bibliography of sources. Most of the entries conclude
with a brief technical analysis. Much of this scientific data,
of prime importance for attribution and dating, has not previously
been published.
With its fresh insights, as well as judicious readings of the
documents and the physical evidence of the paintings themselves,
Caravaggio is the most thorough study on the artist to date,
and it will no doubt remain a definitive monograph for many
years to come. 160 color, 190 b/w illustrations. 11 x 13"
trim size.
Caravaggio: A Life by Helen Langdon – Hardcover,
432 pages 1st farrar edition (June 1999) Farrar Straus & Giroux
(Juv)
Seventeenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin once said that Caravaggio
came into the world to destroy painting. Helen Langdon's marvelous
biography suggests that rather than destroying painting, the
Milanese artist gave it a new lease on life. Upon his arrival
in Rome, Caravaggio ended a tradition of Italian Renaissance
painting with his radically new naturalistic style, which continues
to dazzle and influence viewers today. Beautifully poised between
biographical scholarship and artistic appreciation, Langdon's
book provides the reader with a complex, fascinating portrait
of Caravaggio, still the rebel and outsider of the popular imagination,
but also immersed in the Roman world of art, politics, and patronage.
Caravaggio (Masters of Art)by Alfred Moir –
Hardcover, 128 pages Reprint edition (October 1989) Harry N
Abrams
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Michelangelo
Merisi da Caravaggio, revolutionary naturalist painter,
was born in Caravaggio near Milan, the son of a mason. He showed
his talent early and at the age of sixteen, after a brief apprenticeship
in Milan, he was studying with d'Arpino in Rome. During the
period 1592-98 Caravaggio's work was precise in contour, brightly
colored, and sculpturesque in form, like the Mannerists, but
with an added social and moral consciousness. By 1600 when he
had completed his first public commission the St. Matthew paintings
for the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, he had established
himself as an opponent of both classicism and intellectual Mannerism.
Caravaggio chose his models from the common people and set them
in ordinary surroundings, yet managed to lose neither poetry
nor deep spiritual feeling. His use of chiaroscuro – the
contrast of light and dark to create atmosphere, drama, and
emotion – was revolutionary. His light is unreal, comes
from outside the painting, and creates deep relief and dark
shadow. The resulting paintings are as exciting in their effect
upon the senses as on the intellect.
Caravaggio:
Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives)
Caravaggio: Quadrifolio (Rizzoli Quadrifolio)
Caravaggio
Caravaggio:
A Passionate Life 
Caravaggio's
Secrets
Caravaggio
(Colour Library)
Caravaggio (DK Art Books) 
Caravaggio
Caravaggio: A Life 
Caravaggio (Masters of Art) 
