{"product_id":"caravaggio-the-complete-works-9783836555814","title":"Caravaggio. the Complete Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da \u003cstrong\u003eCaravaggio\u003c\/strong\u003e (1571-1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: \u003cstrong\u003eViolent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This work offers a \u003cstrong\u003ecomprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio's entire oeuvre\u003c\/strong\u003e with a catalogue raisonn? of his works. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high production photography allowing for \u003cstrong\u003edramatic close-ups with Caravaggio's ingenious details of looks and gestures.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cstrong\u003e boundary-breaking naturalism\u003c\/strong\u003e which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchütze, Sebastian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sebastian Schütze was a longtime research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. He is a member of the academic board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and a member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. From 2003 to 2009 he held the Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University in Kingston. In 2009 he was appointed professor of early modern art history at Vienna University.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614243688722,"sku":"9783836555814","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d5b64031-985f-4a96-b75d-a5e8ab21daaa.jpg?v=1732435657","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/caravaggio-the-complete-works-9783836555814","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}