CARAVAGGIO

This monograph explores Caravaggios entire life and career by focusing on the most important of his works. Readers will learn about his innovative use of light and shadow, his physical and psychological realism, and his radical technique of omitting initial drawi ngs and creating straight onto the canvas. Along the way readers will learn details of the artists colorful, and often troubled lif e, as well as the important role he played in the evolution of Western painting. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offe...[Read more]