Der zu seinen Lebzeiten als kontrovers geltende italienische Maler Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) hat seinen heutigen Weltruhm als hervorragender Kunstler des Barock einer Wiederentdeckung im fruhen 20. Jahrhundert zu verdanken. Seitdem sind die Bilder des streitbaren Verfechters der [...]

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 se[...]

Caravaggio was the greatest artist since Titian, a favourite of Popes and wealthy bankers. But at a time when the resurgent Ottoman Empire was planning a second wave of conquest, he discovered a secret so dark that it threatened the very existence of the Catholic Church. The secret endures.[...]

A fascinating examination of Caravaggio and others who adopted his dramatic style of painting The Italian painter known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) claims a place among the most revolutionary figures in the history of art. His intense naturalism, almost brutal realism, and dramatic use of light had a [...]

Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissanc[...]

Although fictional responses to Caravaggio date back to the painter's lifetime (1571-1610), it was during the second half of the twentieth century that interest in him took off outside the world of art history. In this new monograph, the first book-length study of Caravaggio's recent impact, Rorato [...]

The Baroque master Caravaggio, famous for his masterful use of chiaroscuro, produced during his short and tragic life a body of works that would have a lasting impact on the history of Western art. Combining realistic observation of the human state with dramatic use of lighting, Caravaggio's paintin[...]

Voraussetzungen: 1.500 Wörter (90 Unterrichtsstunden) Wo ist das letzte Werk des großen Künstlers Caravaggio? Gibt es das Gemälde wirklich oder handelt es sich um eine Legende? Sofia und Lorenzo reisen durch die Toskana, um es zu suchen. Es passieren viele seltsame Dinge ? Kunst, Liebe, Kultur i[...]

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows impressively how the young artists individually explored this r[...]