{"product_id":"caravaggio-basic-art-series-2-0","title":"Caravaggio (Basic Art Series 2.0) by Gilles Lambert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eboundary-breaking naturalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea startling, often visceral humanity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied by an equally intense personal biography, scored by gambling, debts, drunken brawls, and even a murder charge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emore than 50 of Caravaggio’s most famous and revolutionary works\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to explore how and why this artist is now considered \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe most important painter of the early Baroque period\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and one of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003edefining influences of art history\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, without whom Ribera, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, and Manet could never have painted the way they did.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Publisher Services","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48168275411158,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/6391\/4679\/files\/71LyrCxopvL._SL1500.jpg?v=1777483670","url":"https:\/\/store.mintmuseum.org\/products\/caravaggio-basic-art-series-2-0","provider":"Mint Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}