Caravaggio : Reflections and Refractions (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Introduction: the Caravaggio conundrum, Lorenzo Pericolo and David M. Stone; Caravaggio betrayals: the lost painter and the ’great swindle’, David M. Stone; Caravaggio’s painting technique: a brief survey based on paintings in the National Gallery, London, Larry Keith; Caravaggio’s Portrait of Maffeo Barberini in the Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Keith Christiansen; Touching is believing: Caravaggio’s Doubting Thomas in counter-reformatory Rome, Erin E. Benay; Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin, Giulio Mancini, and the Madonna Blasphemed, Frances Gage; Talking pictures: sound in Caravaggio’s art, Catherine Puglisi; Caravaggio’s angels, Steven F. Ostrow; Caravaggio and the ’truth in pointing’, Jonathan Unglaub; Caravaggio the barbarian, Philip Sohm; The bottom line of painting Caravaggesque, Richard E. Spear; Galileo Galilei and Artemesia Gentileschi: between the history of ideas and microhistory, Elizabeth Cropper; Perfectly true, perfectly false: cardsharps and fortune-tellers by Caravaggio and La Tour, Gail Feigenbaum; Rembrandt and Caravaggio: emulation without imitation, H. Perry Chapman; Interpreting Caravaggio in the second half of the twentieth century: between Galileo and Heidegger, Giordano Bruno and Laplanche, Lorenzo Pericolo; Bibliography; Index.