Icon Editions: Caravaggio (Paperback)

Howard Hibbard; Shirley G Hibbard
Taylor & Francis Ltd
 9780064301282
0-06-430128-1

Caravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the 17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting. In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings "speak to us more personally.

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and more poignantly than any others of the time". In this study, Howard Hibbard evaluates the work of Caravaggio: notorious as a painter-assassin, hailed by many as an original interpreter of the scriptures, a man whose exploration of nature has been likened to that of Galileo.