Lives of Caravaggio

Lives of the Artists

by Giulio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, Pietro Bellori

A new title in the successful Lives of the Artists series, which offers illuminating, and often intimate, accounts of iconic artists as viewed by their contemporaries.
 
The most notorious Italian painter of his day, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) forever altered the course of Western painting with his artistic ingenuity and audacity. This volume presents the most important early biographies of his an account by his doctor, Giulio Mancini; another by one of his artistic rivals, Giovanni Baglione; and a later profile by Giovanni Pietro Bellori that demonstrates how Caravaggio’s impact was felt in seventeenth-century Italy. Together, these accounts have provided almost everything that is known of this enigmatic figure.
 

112 pages, Paperback

Published October 29, 2019

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

This ended up being super disappointing. Just 3 versions of the same essay. Regurgitating what you can depict in each artwork. Didn’t even mention his chiaroscuro technique which he has been considered the master of this style.

Would have been better to have had one essay explaining his life (which instead was re-written 3 times) and then just pages about each of his works.

I expected better