Caravaggio : reflections and refractions /

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Imprint:Farnham, Surry, UK England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Description:xix, 358 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Visual culture in early modernity
Visual culture in early modernity.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10241209
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Other authors / contributors:Pericolo, Lorenzo, 1966- editor.
Stone, D. M. (David M.) editor.
ISBN:9781409406846
1409406849
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-350) and index.
Summary:"As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio's art are multiple and variable. Art historians from the UK and North America offer new or recently updated interpretations of the works of seventeenth-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and of his many followers known as the Caravaggisti. The volume deals with all the major aspects of Caravaggio's paintings: technique, creative process, religious context, innovations in pictorial genre and narrative, market strategies, biography, patronage, reception, and new hermeneutical trends. The concluding section tackles the essential question of Caravaggio's legacy and the production of his followers-not only in terms of style but from some highly innovative strategies: concettismo; art marketing and the price of pictures; self-fashioning and biography; and the concept of emulation." -- Publisher's description.