Today, we would like to present to you a book published by Taschen about one of the most renowned Baroque painters and artists. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Sicily, and Malta. His incredible oeuvre dates from 1593 to 1610.
Caravaggio's paintings were characterized by the dark sides of life and death, including corpse realism, ugliness, and deformity. He avoided returning to Renaissance art, which glorified the beauty of the human body, being in complete opposition to it. His life was full of expression and complexities, including being convicted of murder.
He lived a short life, only 39 years, but left behind an undoubtedly outstanding legacy. This book will surely help you understand who Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio really was.
We invite you to read it
