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Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. This work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire œuvre with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high production photography allowing for dramatic close-ups with Caravaggio's ingenious details of looks and gestures. Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio's artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. They look at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary-breaking naturalism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.

Caravaggio, o para ser más exactos Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), siempre fue una figura de relevancia. El artista, considerado un rebelde de la pintura italiana, fue a la vez alabado y vapuleado. De temperamento violento y tecnica precisa, fue un maestro creativo y un fugitivo de la justicia. En la actualidad se le considera una de las figuras más influyentes de toda la historia del arte. Esta edición ofrece un ordenado pero exhaustivo catalogue raisonne (catálogo exhaustivo, con todas las obras conocidas) de Caravaggio. Todas sus pinturas se reproducen a partir de fotografías recientes de gran calidad que permiten disfrutar en primera persona del genial repertorio de miradas y gestos del artista y de numerosos detalles de ese personal realismo que traspasaba límites. Los cinco capítulos que lo completan recorren toda la trayectoria de Caravaggio, desde sus primeros encargos públicos en Roma hasta el punto más alto de su celebridad. Asimismo, la detallada cronología del libro repasa su tempestuosa vida personal, en la que lo trágico tuvo el mismo protagonismo que los claroscuros en sus lienzos.

The Case Study House program (1945–1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program’s chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture’s greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and had a pronounced influence on architecture―American and international―both during the program’s existence and even to this day. TASCHEN brings you a retrospective of the entire program with comprehensive documentation, brilliant photographs from the period and, for the houses still in existence, contemporary photos, as well as extensive floor plans and sketches.

This is the first major book on Zegers, who practices an intensely artistic and ecological form of architecture based on landscapes in which she builds. Working frequently in timber, Zegers reaches unique, sustainable, and recyclable solutions that combine and rescue the traditional work of Chilean carpenters with modern techniques. In an almost metaphysical journey, in which organic forms, curves, diagonals, and verticals are combined, Zegers affirms her rising presence as a force in ecologically minded architecture.