Christian Huemer is director of the Belvedere Research Center

The result is a provocative and novel historical perspective of an artistically vibrant epoch

a follower of Caravaggio

and Paestum where the Greek art objects in this book were excavated

Lives of Caravaggio holiday Christian Huemer is director ofGiulio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori The most notorious Italian painter of his day, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) forever altered the course of Western painting with his artistic ingenuity and audacity. This volume presents the most important early biographies of his life: an account by his doctor, Giulio Mancini; another by one of his artistic rivals, Giovanni Baglione; and a later profile by Giovanni Pietro