Caravaggio: Reflections and Refractions (Visual, Pericolo, Stone Hardcover..

Taylor & Francis

As this collection makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio\u2019s art are multiple and variable. Offering new or recently updated interpretations of the works of Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti, this book deals with all the major aspects of Caravaggio\u2019s paintings: technique, creative process, religious context, innovations in pictorial genre and narrative, market strategies, biography, patronage, reception and new hermeneutical trends. > As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio\u2019s art are multiple and variable. Art historians from the UK and North America offer new or recently updated interpretations of the works of seventeenth-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and of his many followers known as the Caravaggisti. The volume deals with all the major aspects of Caravaggio\u2019s paintings: technique, creative process, religious context, innovations in pictorial genre and narry