Caravaggio: The Complete Works

Caravaggio was the notorious bad boy of Italian painting. The artist was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master and a man on the run.

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high production photography allowing for dramatic close-ups with Caravaggio’s ingenious details of looks and gestures. The book looks at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary-breaking naturalism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.