Caravaggio and pictorial narrative
Subtitle: dislocating the Istoria in early modern painting
By: Lorenzo Pericolo
Series: HMSBA -- 2
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9781905375486
Subjects: Painters; Influence; Italian Painting; History
Other titles: Dislocating the Istoria in early modern painting
Notes: HMSBA is Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-643) and index.
Table of contents: title: A matter of optics and rhetoric: the aporia of pictorial narravtive before, during, and after Caravaggio's time, Caravaggio's nonsense; title: The glitches in Alberti's Istoria: the human figure between beauty and reality; title: The glitches in Alberti's Istoria: time and action; title: The false dichotomy between telling and showing: beyond Alberti's Istoria; title: Blending genres: lyrical and comical interactions in Caravaggio's early paintings, comedy of errors; title: Money and seduction: narrative patterns in Caravaggio's two versions of the Fortune Teller; title: Behind the comical trick: Caravaggio's 'The Cardsharps' and Giovan Battista Marino's "Gioco de Primera "; title: Love in the mirror: a comparative reading of Titian's 'Woman at her Toilet' and Caravaggio's 'Conversion of Mary Magdalene'.