时间的回归：卡拉瓦乔

by Catherine Puglisi, 凯瑟琳·普格利希, 尹晶 (Translator)

本书是国内首部关于卡拉瓦乔研究最系统、最权威的著作。《卡拉瓦乔》一书最早由国际顶尖艺术出版机构英国费顿出版社最早推出，因其系统、客观、精到的见解得到了业界肯定，被公认为卡拉瓦乔研究的典范，先后被引入法国、意大利。现由一好阅读引进，作为《费顿经典：时间的回归》系列之一出版，中文版100%保留全书内容，收录了超过200幅博物馆级原图，以及正文之后的索引、年表、图注。作者凯瑟琳·普格利希，是美国意大利巴洛克艺术研究专家，罗格斯大学艺术史教授。普格利希潜心研究20余年，充分运用了最新成果，既对卡拉瓦乔的艺术创作进行了精确解剖，也没有丝毫隐瞒画家的性格缺点，是一本兼具学术研究与传记色彩的综合性著作。

卡拉瓦乔，全名米凯兰杰洛·梅尔西·卡拉瓦乔（1571-1610），是那个时代最富有创新精神的画家。在很多方面，他都打破了原有的艺术套路，比如他拒绝临摹前辈的经典作品，而是直接通过设计模特造型来确定构图和人物；比如他拓展了绘画的主题，把罗马社会的各色人等都记录在了画中；比如他发现了光线的秘密，创造了暗绘这一色彩风格。这些创新对后世产生了巨大影响，譬如伦勃朗等人对明暗对比的重视，以后后来的巴洛克艺术。虽然他死后曾一度被人们遗忘，但经过20世纪末的再发现，卡拉瓦乔成为了时代叛逆者的精神偶像。

Genres: Art, Biography, Nonfiction, History, Art History, Reference

252 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're going to get one book on Caravaggio... you could certainly do worse than this edition. Not every book gives you insight like "Dedicating himself to his art, Caravaggio would shut himself up for feverish spurts of activity... but then he would drop work altogether and go about Rome, armed and ready for trouble." This book would probably fall in the category of coffee table book but underpinned with more scholarship than most that I've seen sprinkled with occasional wit. The book perhaps sums up the artist best as, "Devoid of the distancing patina of age, his paintings address the modern viewer with uncommon directness. The very immediacy of religious intensity, violence, and palpable sensuality implicates the viewer, who is tempted to straddle the line between passive observer and voyeur." The high relief of Caravaggio to his contemporaries is best drawn out by the author/editor's selection of Caravaggio paintings with other contemporaries covering the same subject matter. You see Caravaggio's take and you wonder why the rest of them have the volume turned down. Chiaroscuro and tenebrism rocked the art world and the book vividly depicts his creation and evolution of these devices. Along those lines, the Rijksmuseum has an excellent online version of an exhibition comparing Caravaggio and Rembrandt. http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/formats/con... And besides, I can't think of a lot of artists of yore with the chutzpah to (pictorally) sign their name in the spilling blood of a beheaded saint.

[Courtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I mostly looked at the amazing artwork and skimmed little bits here and there.

Might pick up again if I want more details about him or his artwork.

[Ava · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful and complete reproductions. Interesting and previously unexplored scholarship. However, if you are studying Caravaggio in depth, you will want more than Catherine Puglisi’s excellent book. In particular, Howard Hibb’s book,Caravaggio. For meditation purposes on his work, this would be the book to own.
Lately, I have been revisiting Caravaggio with a more “zen” type approach. This has resulted in a renewed appreciation of his work along with a revived curiosity about his life. I’m pretty sure that the proposition has already been offered that Caravaggio was not simply the “bad boy” with the golden hand. I believe it was a golden hand that happened to create the most psychologically and aesthetically arresting examples of Christian (and Catholic) artwork. Perhaps we do the message of his work an injustice with so sharp a divide between what we think we know about Caravaggio and his faith with the product of his talent?

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably the best book I've found in terms of representation quality. Beautiful prints of Caravaggio's work. The writing is alright.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simply one of the best artists ever to live and paint on this earth.

[Lu]

Large history and beautiful photos