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A focus on Caravaggio's last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, telling the story of an empowered female saint In early May 1610, Caravaggio finished painting
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. Two months later, he was dead, having been disfigured in a brawl and become ill while trying to return from exile to Rome.
Caravaggio is one of the most famous and instantly recognisable artists in the world. His paintings open a vivid and startlingly modern window onto the seventeenth century, while his own turbulent life story, characterised by violence, murder, exile, and untimely death, remains a source of fascination. Few paintings are better placed to tell this story than
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. Here, violence takes place at uncomfortably close quarters as Caravaggio, whose own self portrait is included, looks on helplessly.
Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Half title/title
/colophon
Contents
Director’s foreword
Essay
[one continuous text of c. 7,5
00 words, divided into sections as above in bold]
Plates
Timeline [charting the development of this painting and other key works alongside Caravaggio’s life:
he travelled widely and lived in exile in various different places, so the reader can see where he was when he painted each work.]
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Francesca Whitlum-Cooper is acting curator of Later Italian, Spanish and 17th-century French Paintings at the National Gallery, London.
Zusammenfassung
A focus on Caravaggio’s last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, telling the story of an empowered female saint
