The last Caravaggio / editing Bert Treffers & Guus van den Hout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hout, Guus van den.

Treffers, Bert.

Museum Het Rembrandthuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610--Criticism and interpretation.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610.

Painting, Italian.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

71 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), color portrait ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Zwolle : Uitgeverij Waanders ; Amsterdam : Museum Het Rembrandthuis, [2010]

Summary:

Carvaggio's "John the Baptist reclining" is considered to be his last painting. This barely known work has never before been presented to the public. In this book prominent experts set the painting among the work of the great master. They reveal the adventurous circumstances under which this painting has travelled all over the world during the past 400 years.

Contents:

Preface / Janrense Boonstra

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) : an artist between myth and reality / Bert Treffers

The last Caravaggio / Claudio Strinati

The testament of Caravaggio : "John the Baptist reclining" / Bert Treffers

A Neopolitan trace and some notes to the "John the Baptist reclining" by Caravaggio / Vincenzo Pacelli

About the last two paintings depicting John the Baptists / Maurizio Marini

Caravaggio, "John the Baptist reclining" : notes on painting technique / Carlo Giantomassi & Donatella Zari

Bibliography.

Notes:

Exhibition: Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 2010 Dec. 3 until 2011 Feb. 13.

ISBN:

9789040077944

9040077940

OCLC:

701796667