Caravaggio And His Two Cardinals

Author : Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271013121

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Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals by Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Pdf

Gilbert devotes separate discussions to the Marquis and to Cardinal Mattei in developing his argument that each of them influenced Caravaggio in different ways. A collector of classical sculpture, the Marquis is connected to the classical mythological themes that are here identified in specific paintings. A study of Cardinal Mattei indicates that he was outstandingly devout, which was true of only a small number of cardinals during the period. Gilbert shows that the artist's two paintings for the Cardinal alter the previous patterns of representing their religious themes, in ways related to Counter-Reformation ideas. Scholars have long searched for the specific religious figure who inspired this quality in Caravaggio's work, resolved here by Gilbert's meticulous scholarship and carefully drawn connections.

Author : Gail Feigenbaum,S. Ebert-Schifferer,Galina Tirnanić
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781606060421

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Sacred Possessions by Gail Feigenbaum,S. Ebert-Schifferer,Galina Tirnanić Pdf

This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.

Author : Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : 0271013370

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Caravaggio and His Two Cardinals by Creighton Gilbert,Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Pdf

Author : John F. Moffitt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476609874

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Caravaggio in Context by John F. Moffitt Pdf

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) has long been recognized as one of the great innovators in the history of art. Through detailed analysis of paintings from his early Roman period, 1594–1602, this study now situates his art firmly within both its humanistic and its scientific context. Here, both his revolutionary painterly techniques—pronounced naturalism and dramatic chiaroscuro—and his novel subject matter—still-life compositions and genre scenes—are finally put into their proper cultural and contemporary environment. This environment included the contemporary rise of empirical scientific observation, a procedure—like Caravaggio’s naturalism—committed to a close study of the phenomenal world. It also included the interests of his erudite, aristocratic patrons, influential Romans whose tastes reflected the Renaissance commitment to humanistic studies, emblematic literature and classical lore. The historical evidence entered into the record here includes both contemporary writings addressing the instructive purposes of art and the ancient literary sources commonly manipulated in Caravaggio’s time that sanctioned a socially realistic art. The overall result of this investigation is characterize the work of the painter as an expression of “learned naturalism.”

Author : Michael Fried
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252988

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The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried Pdf

A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historians This 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.

Author : John Varriano
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271047038

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Caravaggio by John Varriano Pdf

In Caravaggio, Varriano uncovers the principles and practices that guided Caravaggio's brush as he made some of the most controversial paintings in the history of art. He sheds an important new light on these disputes by tracing the autobiographical threads in Caravaggio's paintings, framing these within the context of contemporary Italian culture.

Author : Lilian H. Zirpolo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781538141793

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Caravaggio by Lilian H. Zirpolo Pdf

Caravaggio: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works focuses on his life, his works, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction, a cross-referenced dictionary section contains entries on his individual paintings, public commissions his patrons, his followers, and the techniques he used in rendering his works.

Author : Troy Thomas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780236803

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Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity by Troy Thomas Pdf

Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, would lay the foundations for modern painting. His paintings defied tradition to such a degree that the meaning of his works have divided critics and viewers for centuries. In this original study, Troy Thomas examines Caravaggio’s life and art in relationship to the profound beginnings of modernity, exploring the many conventions that Caravaggio utterly dismantled with his extraordinary genius. Thomas begins with an in-depth look at Caravaggio’s early life and works and examines how he refined his realism, developed his obsession with darkness and light, and began to find the subtle and clever ambiguity of genre and meaning that would become his trademark. Focusing acutely on the inherent tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities within Caravaggio’s paintings, Thomas goes on to examine his mature religious works and the ways he created a powerful but stark and enigmatic expressiveness in his protagonists. Lastly, he delves into the artist’s final hectic years as a fugitive killer evading papal police and wandering the cities of southern Italy. Richly illustrated in color throughout, Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity will appeal to all of those fascinated by the history of art and the remarkable lives of Renaissance masters.

Author : Mark Frutkin
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780889848801

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The Artist and the Assassin by Mark Frutkin Pdf

Rome, 1600. In the shadowed cellars of Cardinal Del Monte’s palazzo, a shaft of light illuminates the face of Luca Passarelli. Across the room, behind an enormous canvas, the brilliant, mercurial artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio paints with sure brushstrokes Luca’s likeness into a new masterpiece. Caravaggio is both revered and reviled by his patrons as well as his fellow artists. His innovative paintings and his blazing temper have made him powerful friends, but also powerful enemies—enemies who are determined to quench the flame of his talent. What Caravaggio does not know is that Luca is a professional assassin, a bitter and spiteful man who, in his dark past, has ‘breathed in death’ and has committed murder on multiple occasions. What the artist does not know is that when next they meet it will not be a canvas that brings them together, but rather revenge ... and death.

Author : Christine Göttler,Wolfgang Neuber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004163966

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Spirits Unseen by Christine Göttler,Wolfgang Neuber Pdf

Investigating the meanings and uses of "spiritus" in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields - natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts - this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change.

Author : Helen Langdon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781448105717

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Caravaggio by Helen Langdon Pdf

Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, passion, solitude and death. Ugly, almost brutal-looking, Caravaggio was constantly embroiled in fights and entangled with the law; the prototype anti-social artist, he moved between the worlds of powerful patrons and the street life of boys and prostitutes. Helen Langdon uncovers his progress from childhood in plague-ridden Milan to wild success in Rome, and eventual exile and persecution in the South, and sets his work against the political, intellectual and spiritual movements of the day. Fully illustrated, her dramatic portrait shows Carravigio's life to be as sensational and enigmatic as his powerful and enduring art.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781473006409

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Helen Langdon's 'Caravaggio' by The Open University Pdf

This 15-hour free course dealt with the biology of hearing, with content designed to relate directly to the reader's own sensory experiences.

Author : Ian Verstegen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415531511

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A Realist Theory of Art History by Ian Verstegen Pdf

As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified, multi-causal account of art history that addresses postmodern concerns while saving it from its errors of self-refutation. Building from the very basic distinction between intransitive being and transitive knowing, objects can be affirmed as real while our knowledge of them is held to be fallible. Several focused chapters address basic problems while introducing philosophical reflection into art history. These include basic ontological distinctions between society and culture, general and "special" history, the discontinuity of cultural objects, the importance of definition for special history, scales, facets and fiat objects as forms of historical structure, the nature of evidence and proof, historical truth and controversies. Stressing Critical Realism as the stratified, multi-causal approach needed for productive research today in the academy, this book creates the subject of the ontology of art history and sets aside a theoretical space for metaphysical reflection, thus clarifying the usually muddy distinction between theory, methodology, and historiography in art history.

Author : Glenn W. Most
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674266179

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Doubting Thomas by Glenn W. Most Pdf

About the disciple known as Doubting Thomas, everyone knows at least this much: he stuck his finger into the risen Jesus’ wounds. Or did he? A fresh look at the Gospel of John reveals how little we may really understand about this most perplexing of biblical figures, and how much we might learn from the strange twists and turns Thomas’s story has taken over time. From the New Testament, Glenn W. Most traces Thomas’s permutations through the centuries: as Gnostic saint, missionary to India, paragon of Christian orthodoxy, hero of skepticism, and negative example of doubt, blasphemy, stupidity, and violence. Rife with paradoxes and tensions, these creative transformations at the hands of storytellers, theologians, and artists tell us a great deal about the complex relations between texts and their interpretations—and about faith, love, personal identity, the body, and twins, among other matters. Doubting Thomas begins with a close reading of chapter 20 of the Gospel of John, set against the conclusions of the other Gospels, and ends with a detailed analysis of the painting of this subject by Caravaggio, setting it within the pictorial traditions of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Along the way, Most considers narrative reactions to John’s account by storytellers of various religious persuasions, and Christian theologians’ interpretations of John 20 from the second century ad until the Counter-Reformation. His work shows how Thomas’s story, in its many guises, touches upon central questions of religion, philosophy, hermeneutics, and, not least, life.

Author : Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0874139368

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Caravaggio by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Pdf

This volume considers Caravaggio's revolutionary realism from a range of perspectives, presenting new avenues for research by a plurality of leading scholars. First, it advances our understanding of Caravaggio's relationship with the new science of observation championed by Galileo. Second, it examines afresh the theoretical nature and artistic means of Caravaggio's seemingly direct realism. Third, it extends the horizons of research on Caravaggio's complex intellectual and social milieu between high and low cultures. Genevieve Warwick is Senior Lecturer in the Art History department at the University of Glasgow.