The moment of Caravaggio /

This is an examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), Michael Fried offers a tra...

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Main Author: Fried, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Series:A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2010.
Bollingen series ; 35:51.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Lecture 1. Boy bitten by a lizard
  • Lecture 2. Immersion and specularity
  • Lecture 3. The invention of absorption
  • Lecture 4. Skepticism, Shakespeare, address, density
  • Lecture 5. Severed representations
  • Lecture 6. The internal structure of the pictorial act
  • Conclusion.