Caravaggio. the Complete Works. 40th Anniversary Edition

 
★藝術史上最不可忽視的存在：卡拉瓦喬
★回顧叛逆大師精彩的生平與創作
 
　　卡拉瓦喬一直是藝術史上不可被忽視的名字。他為人稱道又備受爭議，脾氣暴躁卻又技藝精湛，既是創作大師，卻又因為捲入一場又一場的鬥爭而頻頻逃亡。但如今，他被認為是影響藝術史最偉大的人之一，他影響風格主義衰亡後幾乎所有的藝術風格，尤其對新興的巴洛克藝術影響深遠。
 
　　在這本畫冊中，每幅畫都採用最先進的攝影手法，大篇幅又細緻的攝影圖像，生動捕捉到卡拉瓦喬筆下畫作人物最細膩的姿態、寫實的明暗對比，並回顧他影響藝術史的激進自然主義技法。隨書附贈的章節則詳細描述卡拉瓦喬生平，回顧他在羅馬受到委託創作的歷史，並追溯他戲劇性的生涯，帶領讀者一窺這位叛逆大師精彩的生平。

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.

This edition offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire oeuvre with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Each painting is reproduced with recent, high production photography allowing for dramatic close-ups with Caravaggio’s ingenious details of looks and gestures.

Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio’s artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. They look at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary-breaking naturalism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.