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Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), known as Caravaggio, after his home town in Lombardy, was arguably not only the finest painter of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods, but one of the great artists of all time. He must also rank among the most revolutionary of those who, from time to... read more
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THAT CARAVAGGIO'S ACHIEVEMENT as an artist in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is now well recogni/ed is in great part due to the pioneering researches of a small band of dedicated scholars, including Roberto Longhi and Denis Mahon, whose systematic and frequently brilliant work on matters of attribution has led, during the past hundred years, to the establishment, out of a tiny corpus of definite works and a whole sea of misattributions, of a substantial and still expanding auvre.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Jupiter Books
Country: England
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0906379407
Page Count: 128
Publisher: Jupiter Books
Country: England
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0906379407
Page Count: 128
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- Dewey: 759.5
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