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Item Number: 114941
Title: CARAVAGGIO e l'avventura della fede
Author: Paolucci, Antonio ; Timothy Verdon
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788882710927
Description: Citta del Vaticano: Edizioni Musei Vaticani - Sillabe - Giunti, 2011. 21cm., pbk., 56pp. illus., most in color. Italian text. Summary: The Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome houses two works of art by Caravaggio: the Crucifixion of Saint Peter and the Conversion of Saint Paul. The altarpiece, in the centre of the Chapel, by Annibale Carracci The Assumption of the Virgin, was created, as the previous two, between 1600 and 1601. Professor Antonio Paolucci, Director of the Vatican Museums, and Mgr. Timothy Verdon, Director of the Office of Catechetics through Art, of the Archdiocese of Florence, comment on and describe these masterpieces from different points of view. Professor Antonio Paolucci explores the artistic allusions that the two masterpieces by Caravaggio have with other works of art - from Velazquez to Michelangelo - because, to use the words of the Professor, "it is true that in a painting, if you know how to look at it, you will find all paintings". Mgr. Timothy Verdon looks into the relationship between the Iconographic Tradition and the commissioner behind the works of art by Caravaggio, focusing in particular on the mystery of the conversion of Saint Paul. "It is this that Caravaggio represents: a "mystery" - an interior and mysterious event - enshrouded by light and silence. Unlike others (...) Caravaggio limits the narrative elements to two men, a horse, and to light, which become the protagonist". (Arte e fede, 2. ^Forthcoming^)
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