Caravaggio: Directed by Derek Jarman. With Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Dexter Fletcher. A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
A few months later he was performing hack-work for the highly successful Giuseppe Cesari, Pope Clement VIII's favourite artist, "painting flowers and fruit"in his factory-like workshop. Known works from this period include a small Boy Peeling a Fruit (his earliest known painting), a Boy wit...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) has been rescued from neglect to emerge as something of a cult figure, celebrated for his boldly original art and for his short, violent and troubled life. This monograph on the artist's life and work is issued here in paperback format. Caravaggio...
The result of over 20 years of research by a leading authority on Caravaggio, this work reproduces every known work of the artist. 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...
her decapitated head continued to petrify those that looked at it. Caravaggio plays with this concept by modeling himself for Medusa’s face – making him the only one who is safe from Medusa’s dedly gaze – and having to look at his reflection to paint the shield in the same way that...
Beheadings are a common theme, as is violence itself, in Caravaggio’s work. Caravaggio had a proclivity for violence. He was often seen in the tavern, drunk, gambling, and picking fights with those around him. Despite being taken in by his prestigious patron, Cardinal del Monte, he was ...
He was a famous, famously difficult man whose contemporaries recorded anecdotes about him; and we have records of his difficulties with the law. He was a non-verbal artist whose work seicento writers describe. We aim to understand Caravaggio's art in his terms, recreating his creative activity...
The action-filled painting’s inky tenebrism and bursts of red are characteristic of a master still in his prime. The work, however, would prove to be his last: two months after its completion and at the age of 38, Caravaggio died of unknown causes. In London for the first time in 20...
where he arrived without provision and without fixed address. He was naked and extremely needy and short of money. After a few months, he started performing hack-work for Giuseppe Cesari who was Pope Clement VIII's favorite painter. Caravaggio painted fruits and flowers in his factory-like ...
His work remains tremendous - both his themes and his techniques became an inspiration for Rubens, Velazquez, and Rembrandt, inspiring especially the technique of chiaroscuro, of which he was one of the precursors. With the help of numerous colour reproductions, this book retraces the life of ...