Caravaggio : reflections and refractions / edited by Lorenzo Pericolo and David M. Stone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pericolo, Lorenzo, 1966- editor.

Stone, David M., 1955- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610--Themes, motives.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610--Influence.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1571-1610.

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610.

Painting, Italian--Expertising.

Painting, Italian.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Themes, motives.

Local Subjects:

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1571-1610.

Physical Description:

xix, 358 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surry, UK England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

Summary:

"As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio's 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's paintings: technique, creative process, religious context, innovations in pictorial genre and narrative, market strategies, biography, patronage, reception, and new hermeneutical trends. The concluding section tackles the essential question of Caravaggio's legacy and the production of his followers-not only in terms of style but from some highly innovative strategies: concettismo; art marketing and the price of pictures; self-fashioning and biography; and the concept of emulation." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: The Caravaggio conundrum / Lorenzo Pericolo and David M. Stone

Carravagio betrayals: the lost painter and the "great swindle" / David M. Stone

Caravaggio's painting technique: a brief survey based on paintings in the National Gallery, London / Larry Keith

Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberinin in Palazzo Corsini, Florence / Keith Christiansen

Touching is believing: Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas in counter-reformatory Rome / Erin E. Benay

Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin, Giulio Mancini, and Madonna blasphemed / Frances Gage

Talking pictures: sound in Caravaggio's art / Catherine Puglisi

Caravaggio's angels / Steven F. Ostrow

Caravaggio and the "truth in painting" / Jonathan Unglaub

Caravaggio the barbarian / Philip Sohm

The bottom line of painting Caravaggesque / Richard E. Spear

Galileo Galilei and Artemisia Gentileschi: between the history of ideas and microhistory / Elizabeth Cropper

Perfectly true, perfectly false: cardsharps and fortune tellers by Caravaggio and La Tour / Gail Feigenbaum

Rembrandt an Caravaggio: emulation without imitation / H. Perry Chapman

Interpreting Caravaggio in the second half of the twentieth century: between Galileo and Heidegger, Giordano Bruno and Laplanche / Lorenzo Pericolo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-350) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1409406849

9781409406846

OCLC:

858778221

Publisher Number:

99964140505