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Read [Todd P. Olson Book] * Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics explores how the artist’s commitment to materiality served and ultimately challenged the Counter Reformation church’s interests. The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making paintings that placed particular importance on sacred relics and the glorification of martyred saints. Beginning with his early works, Caravaggio was intensely engaged with the physical world. He
| Title | : | Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.43 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300190131 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics explores how the artist’s commitment to materiality served and ultimately challenged the Counter Reformation church’s interests. The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making paintings that placed particular importance on sacred relics and the glorification of martyred saints. Beginning with his early works, Caravaggio was intensely engaged with the physical world. He not only interrogated appearances but also experimented with the paint’s material nature. In his first ecclesiastical commission, Caravaggio offered an unconventional representation of martyrdom that collapsed the borders between art, contemporary religious persecution, iconoclasm, and relics in early Christian catacombs. Yet his art controversially and eventually led to a criminal trial. After he had fled from Rome in disgrace, his major altarpiece depicting the death of the Virgin Mary, portraying her mortality rather than her sanctity, was removed. Caravaggio’s materiality came into conflict with changing notions of the sacred; thereafter, the sacred o
Olson is associate professor, history of art, at the University of California, Berkeley.. Todd P
Olson is associate professor, history of art, at the University of California, Berkeley.. About the AuthorTodd P
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