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Title

The last Caravaggio / editing Bert Treffers & Guus van den Hout.

Publication

Zwolle : Uitgeverij Waanders ; Amsterdam : Museum Het Rembrandthuis, [2010]

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Additional Authors

• Hout, Guus van den.
• Museum Het Rembrandthuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Treffers, Bert.

Description

71, [1] p. : ill. (some col.), col. port.; 28 cm.

Summary

Carvaggio's "John the Baptist reclining" is considered to be his last painting. This barely known work has never before been presented to the public. In this book prominent experts set the painting among the work of the great master. They reveal the adventurous circumstances under which this painting has travelled all over the world during the past 400 years.

Subject

• Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610 > Exhibitions
• Painting, Italian > 17th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Tentoonstellingen (vorm)

Note

• Exhibition: Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, Dec. 3, 2010- Feb. 13, 2011.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Janrense Boonstra -- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) : an artist between myth and reality / Bert Treffers -- The last Caravaggio / Claudio Strinati -- The testament of Caravaggio : "John the Baptist reclining" / Bert Treffers -- A Neopolitan trace and some notes to the "John the Baptist reclining" by Caravaggio / Vincenzo Pacelli -- About the last two paintings depicting John the Baptists / Maurizio Marini -- Caravaggio, "John the Baptist reclining" : notes on painting technique / Carlo Giantomassi & Donatella Zari -- Bibliography.

ISBN

• 9789040077944 (pbk.)
• 9040077940

OCLC

701796667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library