Caravaggio

by Hibbard,Howard

• ISBN13: 9780064301282
• ISBN10: 0064301281
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-03-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Caravaggio is the most arresting European painter of the years around 1600. Although he died in 1610, in his thirty-ninth year, he is often considered the most important Italian painter of the entire seventeenth century. He is also notorious as a painter-assassin: he killed a man in 1606, and a similar crime was rumored in his youth. Caravaggio's painting speak to us more personally and more poignantly than any others of the time. We meet him over the gulf of centuries, not as a commanding and admirable historical figure like Annibale Carracci, but as an artist who somehow cut through the artistic conventions of his time right down to the universal blood and bone of life.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction Early Years in Milan and Rome	p. 1
Finding the Way	p. 13
Early Secular Paintings	p. 15
The First Religious Paintings	p. 50
Egregius in Urbe Pictor	p. 89
The Contarelli Chapel (i)	p. 91
The Cerasi Chapel	p. 118
The Contarelli Chapel (ii)	p. 138
Michelangelo Merisi and Michelangelo Buonarroti	p. 149
The Later Roman Paintings	p. 164
The End of the Road	p. 207
Naples and Malta	p. 209
Sicily, Naples, Death	p. 235
Afterthoughts	p. 256
Notes to the Illustrations	p. 268
Other Paintings Attributed to Caravaggio	p. 334
Old Reports About Caravaggio, in the Original and in Translation	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 388
Acknowledgments	p. 394
Index	p. 395
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