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Title: Caravaggio by Catherine Puglisi ISBN: 0-7148-3966-3 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 03 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A valuable contribution but print is hard to read.
Comment: I have been looking for recent books on Caravaggio for use in an art history class that I will give this Spring. I've done "spot" reading of this text, and found fascinating insights. However, it is hard for me to understand why such difficult to read silvery grey text was used. Perhaps younger eyes than mine would not have problems with this choice. However, my eyes rebelled rapidly, and although fascinated with the message, the medium proved exhausting. The font choice and size are also, in my opinion, poor ones. I suppose the aim was to produce a beauiful book, and it is that, but in my opinion the book's function of transmitting information is undercut by the odd typography design.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing Book about a PHENOMENAL artist!!
Comment: Anything showing photos of this fellow's incredible oevre would probably deserve the highest praise even without editorial guidance. But just browsing thru this one will stun anyone not familiar with Caravaggio, which is probably 98% of the populace.Ms. Puglisi interweaves the artist's life and times around the glorious color photos. The print may be a tad small,but the fact that there's around two spaces between each line of text makes it, IMHO, even easier to read than otherwise. The raw,harrowing originality of this artist are beyond description, and his life is a near match. He died violently before the age of 40...Especially recommended for those (mainly males) who may think that Art and Art History are less than manly pursuits!! (Yes there are plenty of guys out there who think like this.) Give this book, the author,publisher, and the artist way more than five stars!!
Rating: 1
Summary: no, that's not this book
Comment: WARNING! the editorial reviews and reader reviews on this page have nothing to do with this book! puglisi's text is a hefty phaidon paperback; the book you buy here is a slim rizzoli hardback. the quadrifolio is actually a set of folded up posters glued into a hard binding. there is a meager introduction, no critical apparatus, no captioning or text describing the paintings, no page numbering, no table of contents, no index. the reproductions themselves are not optimally color balanced, veering sometimes toward green, sometimes toward red. fine if you want it, but don't expect puglisi's magnificent volume.
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Title: Caravaggio by John T. Spike, Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, Michele K. Spike ISBN: 0789206390 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Caravaggio: A Life by Helen Langdon ISBN: 0813337941 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: M : The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb ISBN: 0312274742 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 10 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard ISBN: 0064301281 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: February, 1985 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Artemisia Gentileschi by Mary D. Garrard ISBN: 0691002851 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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