Caravaggio The Stories Of St Matthew
Stafano Zuffi · 2012
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'The Stories of St Matthew' marked a turning point in Caravaggio's career, and in the history of painting itself. Behind their mystery lies an unprecedented creative process, characterised by choices and pentimenti revealed by detailed analyses. At the time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an unruly thirty-year-old painter of small to medium-sized works,commissioned privately. Although at first Cardinal Mathieu Cointrel had no intention of involving Caravaggio in the decoration of his family chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, fate (a positive fate in the light of art history) offered the painter, through a series of contretemps and coincidences, the chance of a lifetime to become a publicly acclaimed master.
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ore Cultura Srl (Acc)
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 95
- ISBN
- 9788866480853
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