![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The new catalogue raisonné offers a detailed overview of the artist’s entire oeuvre based on the latest research. Our understanding of Caravaggio’s work has been substantially broadened in recent decades by major exhibitions, restoration campaigns, new attributions and archival discoveries. The spotlight thereby falls upon the radical nature and innovative force of Caravaggio’s art and its influence in all of Europe. Five introductory chapters analyze his artistic career from his training in Lombard Milan and his triumphal rise in papal Rome, up to his dramatic final years in Naples, Malta, and Sicily. On the heels of Caravaggio year 2010, this work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire oeuvre, with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Few other artists have provoked such controversy and so many contradictory interpretations right up to modern times. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. Sublime blasphemy? The complete œuvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. ![]()
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