Caravage. L’oeuvre complet. Amérique centrale et du sud tradition and devotion

tradition and devotion

"Derrière le miroir" and "XXe siècle"

A thousand stories draw a history

This is a way for the Musée de La Poste to promote philatelic creation and anchor it in the vast field of art history

Caravage. L’oeuvre complet. Amérique centrale et du sud tradition and devotionThe painting of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (Milan, 1571 Porto Ercole, 1610), had such a wide resonance that it determined, according to the judgment of modern critics, a true "revolutionary turning point" in Italian and European artistic culture. This book retraces the artist's life amidst lights and shadows, astonishment and scandal, proposing the works that critics unanimously recognize as autographs based on documentary discoveries