Caravaggio: The Complete Works

by Alessandro Guasti and Francesca Neri

This beautiful volume traces the tumultuous life and brilliant career of this fascinating artist-rebel, offering a rich and renewed appreciation of the masterworks that still seem strikingly modern. Because his career was so short and he never established a workshop, Caravaggio and his work were largely forgotten for the three centuries following his death, despite the great fame he earned during his life, and only about fifty of his paintings are known to survive today.

Genres: Art

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[John Hendricks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good detailed artist review and some nice background on his artistic arc. Two favorite paintings: the disturbing Judith and Holofernes and his Saint Jerome.

[Michaela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Similarly written to the other books of this series. I still have issues with paintings that are referred to in the book are not present, as well as random sections on important paintings in the middle of a sentence.

[Chris Gager · Rating 5 out of 5]

Michelangelo da Caravaggio is somewhat underknown considering his place in Art History. One of my own top five to ten all-timers. I saw a bunch of his paintings in Amsterdam in the spring of 2006 at a special Rembrandt-Caravaggio exhibit at the Van Gogh Museum. Amazing.