Caravaggio, or more accurately michelangelo merisi when caravaggio 1571 1610 , var a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious boat boy of italian painting, thé artist var to once celebrated spirit controversial: violent in temperame, precise in technique, a creative master, spirit a one on thé run.This edition offers a omfattende reassessment of caravaggio’p entire uvre with a catalog raisonné of his works. Hver painting ice reproduced with senaste, high production photography allowing lining dramatic close-ups with caravaggio s ingenious details of looks spirit gestures.Five introductory chapters analyze caravaggio s artistic career from his early struggle two make a living, through his first public commissions in rome, spirit his growing celebrity status. They look to his stigende daring with lighting spirit with a boundary breaking naturalism som allowed even biblical events two unfold with an unprecedented immediacy før thé preview.
