Tag Caravaggio

Michael Fried: Toward a Post-Caravaggio Pictorial Poetics

This summer, we’re delighted to publish a new book by the esteemed art critic and historian Michael Fried.  The beautifully illustrated new book, After Caravaggio, combines an accessible account of works by Bartolomeo Manfredi, Valentin de Boulogne, Nicolas Tournier, Nicolas Régnier, and a young Jusepe de Ribera with a detailed case study

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Rediscovering Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome

Very few of Caravaggio’s works survive, and yet his considerable influence on Baroque painters across Europe is the subject of a new exhibition, “Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome” at the National Gallery of Canada, traveling to the Kimbell Art Museum later this fall. Most recently, an unknown portrait by Caravaggio has been uncovered, dating approximately to the year 1600 when the Italian artist was at his height.