Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1998
ISBN: 0374118949
English
478 pages
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Of all the great Italian painters, Caravaggio speaks most clearly and powerfully to our time. Caravaggio 's early paintings of cardsharps, musicians, and street vendors convey his familiarity and fascination with the Roman underworld; his stark and brilliant religious paintings represent, for the first time in European art, the world of the poor, the suffering, and the outcast, and they depict the religious experience of the individual with a directness our age can recognize.

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