
Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves Though his name may be familiar to all of us his work had been habitually detested & forced into obscurity Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time but his sacrilegious subject matter & use of lower-class models were violently scorned Caravaggio&s great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute It wasn&t until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered & quite posthumously deemed a great master He is now considered the most important painter of the early Baroque period; without him there would have been no Ribera Zurbaran Velazquez Vermeer or Georges de La Tour Frans Hals Rembrandt Delacroix & Manet would have been different In this book you&ll find over 50 of Caravaggio&s best paintings; we think you&ll agree that he was a genius beyond his time