The Moment of Caravaggio
The Moment of Caravaggio:

A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the I...

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Main Author: Fried, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2023]
Series:The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 35
Subjects:
ART / History / Baroque & Rococo
Composition (Art)
Painting, Italian > Italy > Rome > 16th century
Painting, Italian > Italy > Rome > 17th century
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Summary:A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, The Moment of Caravaggio displays Fried's unique combination of interpretive brilliance, historical seriousness, and theoretical sophistication, providing sustained and unexpected readings of a wide range of major works, from the early Boy Bitten by a Lizard to the late Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. The result is an electrifying new perspective on a crucial episode in the history of European painting.Focusing on the emergence of the full-blown "gallery picture" in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth, Fried draws forth an expansive argument, one that leads to a radically revisionist account of Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait; of the role of extreme violence in his art, as epitomized by scenes of decapitation; and of the deep structure of his epoch-defining realism. Fried also gives considerable attention to the art of Caravaggio's great rival, Annibale Carracci, as well as to the work of Caravaggio's followers, including Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and Valentin de Boulogne.Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (314 pages) 203 b/w illus
ISBN:9780691252988
DOI:10.1515/9780691252988

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