In early modern societies throughout Europe, artistic production is bound by numerous rules and conventions, which inform technical procedures, determine formats and configurations of works of art, and regulate their contents: what is usually defined as subject or subject-matter. Not only are painte[...]
As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio's art are multiple and variable. Art historians from the UK and North America offer new or recently updated interpretations of the works of seventeenth-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagg[...]