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Caravaggio's Models: Friends, Lovers, Rivals

Caravaggio's Models: Friends, Lovers, Rivals

Jackall, Yuriko

Hardcover

Art History

Publisher Price: $65.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 23, 2027

ISBN10: 030030613X
ISBN13: 9780300306132
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Mar 23 2027
Pages: 320
Language: English

A groundbreaking investigation into the identity of the people who posed for Caravaggio and their influence on one of history's most revolutionary artists

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is renowned as one of the greatest painters of the Italian Baroque. This volume offers the first sustained study of the individuals who posed for the artist. New art-historical research combined with a close analysis of key paintings--including Martha and Mary Magdalene, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Boy Bitten by a Lizard, and Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness--uncovers the identities, biographies, and social networks of Caravaggio's models. Repositioning the artist's work within the lived realities of the people who shaped it, many of whom occupied economically or socially marginalized positions, the essays address themes such as sex work, poverty, homosexuality, artistic collaboration, and the circulation of imagery. In doing so, they situate Caravaggio's practice within the broader cultural fabric of seventeenth-century Italy.

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