Caravaggio and his followers in Rome
By: David Franklin
Contributors: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610; National Gallery of Canada; Kimbell Art Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780300170726
Subjects: Influence; Exhibitions
Description: "The Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a profound impact on a wide range of baroque painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish origin who resided in Rome either during his lifetime or immediately afterward. This captivating book illustrates the notion of "Caravaggism," showcasing 65 works by Peter Paul Rubens and other important artists of the period who drew inspiration from Caravaggio. Also depicted are Caravaggio canvases that fully exhibit his distinctive style, along with ones that had a particularly discernible impact on other practitioners. Caravaggio's influence was greatest in Rome, where his works were seen by the largest and most international group of artists, and was at its peak in the early decades of the 17th century both before and after his untimely death at the age of 39. Not since Michelangelo or Raphael has one European artist affected so many of his contemporaries and over such broad geographic territory. Essays by an array of major Caravaggio scholars illuminate the underlying principles of the exhibit, reveal how Caravaggio altered the presentation and interpretation of many traditional subjects and inspired unusual new ones, and explore the artist's legacy and how he irrevocably changed the course of painting."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 10, 2011-Sept. 11, 2011 and at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., Oct. 9, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Essays.The public Caravaggio; title: Caravaggism in Europe: a planetary system and its gravitational laws; title: Caravaggio's Roman collectors; title: Notes on Caravaggio's early followers recorded in Roman parish registers from 1600 to 1630; title: Notes toward a Caravaggisti pictorial poetics; title: Catalogue sections. "You know that I love you" : music and youth in Caravaggio; title: The fortune teller; title: The cardsharps; title: Staging religious history for collectors and connoisseurs.