The Moment of Caravaggio av Michael Fried

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<p><b>A richly illustrated reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today''s leading art historians</b><br><br>This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist''s revolutionary achievement. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, <i>The Moment of Caravaggio</i> displays Fried''s unique combination of interpretive brilliance, historical seriousness, and theoretical sophistication, providing sustained and unexpected readings of a wide range of major works, from the early Boy Bitten by a Lizard to the late <i>Martyrdom of Saint Ursula</i>. And with close to 200 color images, <i>The Moment of Caravaggio</i> is as richly illustrated as it is clos