{"product_id":"9783836559935","title":"Caravaggio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revolution in painting: The Baroque realism that electrified art history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610)\u003c\/b\u003e was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio's \u003cb\u003eboundary-breaking naturalism\u003c\/b\u003e which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feat to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with \u003cb\u003ea startling, often visceral, humanity\u003c\/b\u003e. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied by an equally intense personal biography, scored by gambling, debts, drunken brawls, and even a murder charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together Caravaggio's most famous and revolutionary works to explain why this artist is now considered \u003cb\u003ethe most important painter of the early Baroque period\u003c\/b\u003e and one of the \u003cb\u003edefining influences of art history\u003c\/b\u003e, without whom Ribera, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, and Manet, could never have painted the way they did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Series:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEach book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea concise biography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eapproximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037928603888,"sku":"9783836559935","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783836559935_p0.jpg?v=1769887988","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836559935","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}