The Cardsharps, one of the paintings that launched Caravaggio's spectacular career in Rome, captured the turbulent social reality of the city in the 1590s. This early masterpiece not only documented one of the everyday activities of Rome's citizens, but its vivid, lifelike style also opened the door to a revolutionary naturalism that would spread throughout Europe.
Helen Langdon, the scholar whose illuminating Caravaggio: A Life became a best-seller, returns to her subject and his milieu in this new, richly illustrated volume. She sets Caravaggio's Cardsharps within the context of contemporaneous literature, art theory, and theater and incorporates new archival research to enliven our understanding of the painter's time, place, and contemporaries. By fully analyzing one of Caravaggio's most daringly novel works, Langdon demonstrates the significant influence he had on the future of European art.

Caravaggio's Cardsharps: Trickery and Illusion (Kimbell Masterpiece Series)

Arts & Photography

Langdon, Helen

History & Criticism

Kimbell Art Museum

Featuring forty-three color reproductions and black-and-white illustrations throughout, a well-crafted biography of Caravaggio--the first in English in two generations--sheds new light on the seventeenth-century Italian painter's dramatic life and astonishing work.

Caravaggio: A Life

Painting

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A guide to art galleries and museums around the world

Simon and Schuster Pocket Art Museum Guide

Simon&Schuster

The first British biography, gorgeously illustrated, of a great artist - a sensational life plus a brilliant critical study. Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. Helen Langdon uncovers his progress from childhood in plague-ridden Milan to wild success in Rome, where he moved between the worlds of powerful patrons and rich cardinals, and the violent street life of boys and prostitutes. He was involved in brawls, in scandals all his life and argument still rages as to whether he was homosexual or bisexual - finally at the height of his fame, he killed a rival gang-leader in a scuffle and was forced to flee into exile in Naples. From there he went to Malta, to the strange enclosed world of the Knights of St John, and then to Sicily. Constantly evading his pursuers, bailed out by his patrons, and struggling to return to Rome, he died, perhaps murdered, in a lonely fortress on the coast. This biography brings the heady world of Counter-Reformation Italy vividly to life, but it also sheds new light on Caravaggio's art, his startling realism and his peculiar, powerful blend of the sensual and the spiritual. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white - an epoch making study.

London: Chatto & Windus

This account of the life and times of Claude Lorrain, a French 17th-century painter, makes accessible the range and variety of his drawings and oil paintings. He worked principally in the Campagna near Rome, which he used as the basis for his haunting and idyllic paintings of classical myths. His work and poetic perception have continuously exerted influence not only on the history of painting but also on the development of European culture. The author is a lecturer in art history with a special interest in Baroque art.

Claude Lorrain

Phaidon Inc Ltd

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

Degas (The Colour Library)

ROBERTS, Keith

Phaidon Press

Hans Holbein the Younger is renowned for his portraits of Northern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was far more various, and included book illustrations and jewellery designs. This book includes many different examples of his work.

Holbein: Colour Library

Malpas, James

Individual Artists

Holbein

Of all the great Italian painters, the seventeenth-century master Caravaggio speaks most clearly and powerfully to our time. In this vivid and beautifully written biography, Helen Langdon tells the story of the great painter's life and times in a way that leaves the reader with a renewed appreciation of his art.

Westview Press

This art books contains colorful paintings of Great Master such as Velasquez, Jan Steen, Vermeer, Chardin, Courbet, Degas and Leger for the reader to enjoy. The reproductions are excellent.

Everyday Life Painting

Smithmark+publishers Inc

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Books by Langdon, Helen

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Caravaggio's Cardsharps: Trickery and Illusion (Kimbell Masterpiece Series)

Caravaggio: A Life

Simon and Schuster Pocket Art Museum Guide

Caravaggio: A Life

Claude Lorrain

Degas (The Colour Library)

Holbein: Colour Library

Holbein

Caravaggio: A Life

Everyday Life Painting