Caravaggio in Context: Learned Naturalism and Renaissance Humanism

by John F. Moffitt

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) has long been recognized as one of the great innovators in the history of art. Through detailed analysis of paintings from his early Roman period, 1594-1602, this study now situates his art firmly within both its humanistic and its scientific context. Here, both his revolutionary painterly techniques--pronounced naturalism and dramatic chiaroscuro--and his novel subject matter--still-life compositions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786419598
• ISBN13: 9780786419593
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher