This is Caravaggio / Annabel Howard ; illustrations by Iker Spozio.
By: Howard, Annabel [author.]
Contributor(s): Spozio, Iker [illustrator.]
Language: English Series: This isPublisher: London, United Kingdom : Laurence King Publishing, 2016Description: 80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780677002Subject(s): Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610 | Artists | Artists -- Italy -- Biography | Criticism and interpretation | Criticism, interpretation, etc | Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610 -- Criticism and interpretation | ItalyGenre/Form: Biography.DDC classification: 759.5 Summary: Mercurial, saturnine, scandalous, and unpredictable, Caravaggio—as a man, as a character, and as an artist—holds dramatic appeal. He spent a large part of his life on the run, leaving a trail of illuminated chaos wherever he passed, most of it recorded in criminal justice records. When he did settle for long enough to paint, he produced works of staggering creativity and technical innovation. He was famous throughout Italy for his fulminating temper, but also for his radical and sensitive humanization of biblical stories, and in particular his decision to include the brutal and dirty life of the street in his paintings. Caravaggio was a rebel and a violent man, but he eyed the world with deep empathy, realism, and an unrelenting honesty. Source: Publisher| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Mercurial, saturnine, scandalous, and unpredictable, Caravaggio—as a man, as a character, and as an artist—holds dramatic appeal.
He spent a large part of his life on the run, leaving a trail of illuminated chaos wherever he passed, most of it recorded in criminal justice records. When he did settle for long enough to paint, he produced works of staggering creativity and technical innovation.
He was famous throughout Italy for his fulminating temper, but also for his radical and sensitive humanization of biblical stories, and in particular his decision to include the brutal and dirty life of the street in his paintings. Caravaggio was a rebel and a violent man, but he eyed the world with deep empathy, realism, and an unrelenting honesty.
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