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Item Number: 119473
Title: CARAVAGGIO and His Legacy
Author: Marandel, J. Patrice (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783791352305
Description: Munich-New York: Prestel, 2012. 28cm., hardcover, 174pp. illus., 56 color plates. Exhibition held at Musée Fabre, Montpellier (then to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art). Summary: This examination of Caravaggio’s work and its influence on his contemporaries and later painters features evidence of the Roman painter’s legacy throughout Europe. They were known as the 'Caravaggisti' — artists who imitated the 16th-century master’s earthy, realistic style or subject matter. Caravaggio’s impact on his contemporaries was immediate, but in the decades that followed his brief career, hundreds of artists drew inspiration from his innovative use of intense light and shadow, the distinctly theatrical atmosphere of his paintings, his use of religious imagery, and his preference for painting directly from life. This companion volume to an exhibition features works by Caravaggio and more than 30 other artists. The book displays an amazing cross section of genre, portraiture, historical subjects, and religious scenes. Bringing together previously unconnected painters from Italy, Northern Europe, France, and Spain, this remarkable collection brilliantly illustrates Caravaggio’s enormous effect on the development of 17th-century European painting.

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