Автор:Vittorio Sgarbi Год: 2007 Издание:SKIRA Страниц: 208 ISBN: 8876248595 In this volume the Italian leading art historian Vittorio Sgarbi outlines his personal rereading of the trajectories and innovations of Caravaggio's artistic language through a critical re-examination of all the master's known works and undisputed masterpieces. In addition to the introductory essay - in which the author revisits critical questions regarding the young Lombard Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's formation, apprenticeship with the Milanese painter Simone Peterzano, departure for Rome, the beginning of the great fortune he found among Roman cardinals and nobles, and his tragic death at Porto Ercole - the volume is enriched by a sumptuous series of catalogue entries examining each single work, in which the historical and critical analyses mine all the latest specialized texts and documentary discoveries for new information. The narration is measured, absorbing, and clear, permitting the reader to easily enter Caravaggio's complex history, get to know his patrons,...
