{"product_id":"caravaggio-9783836559935","title":"Caravaggio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)\u003c\/strong\u003e was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio's \u003cstrong\u003eboundary-breaking naturalism\u003c\/strong\u003e which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with \u003cstrong\u003ea startling, often visceral humanity\u003c\/strong\u003e. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied by an equally intense personal biography, scored by gambling, debts, drunken brawls, and even a murder charge.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book brings together \u003cstrong\u003emore than 50 of Caravaggio's most famous and revolutionary works\u003c\/strong\u003e to explore how and why this artist is now considered \u003cstrong\u003ethe most important painter of the early Baroque period\u003c\/strong\u003e and one of the \u003cstrong\u003edefining influences of art history\u003c\/strong\u003e, without whom Ribera, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, and Manet could never have painted the way they did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambert, Gilles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gilles Lambert (1928-2011) was born in Paris, but spent his whole life between the capitals Rome and Paris. He translated a number of works on the Seicento from the Italian. With André Labarthe, he founded the journal Constellation in the 1950s, and subsequently worked for Le Figaro Littéraire and Paris Match. He wrote monographs on Auguste Mariette and Caravaggio.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNéret, Gilles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gilles Néret (1933-2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer, and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU Museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'OEil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Élie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador Dalí The Paintings, Matisse, and Erotica Universalis.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629560008978,"sku":"9783836559935","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f403645f-b4c3-40c1-b726-aca99fa3e84e.jpg?v=1732731536","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/caravaggio-9783836559935","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}