Caravaggio

Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to single international artists, artistic movements and painting genres.
Published on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio death, the turbulent life and revolutionary masterpieces of a genius: Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio.
A new and stimulating opportunity to penetrate the very essence of the "terribly natural" painter, his revolutionary and astonishing naturalistic criterion.
Key Sales Information - Each volume contains 96 pages and at least 50 colour images and is perfect for casual reading or easy reference: an accessible overview which is a fine and a practical art history lesson that everyone can enjoy.
- The text includes a timeline, a catalogue of the works, a critical anthology and a selected bibliography.
Author Francesca Marini is an art historian and a writer. She published several artist monographs for Skira including Caravaggio, Bacon, Gèricault, Tintoretto.
She is also the author of dossiers in the Skira exhibition catalogues Modigliani (2006) and Bacon (2008).