"Some artists feel a strong compulsion to depict what is coarse and ugly, yet develop out of these elements both passion and power - even a kind of peculiar magnificence, which has grown out of a particular feeling or disposition. Accordingly, whilst the resulting picture may not strike a viewer as edifying, it frequently creates a very powerful and moving impression."
In Search of the Artist
Essential Features of Caravaggio's Art
Inset: The Imitation of Nature, the Ideal, and the Hierarchy of Genres
Arrangements of Objects and Figures
Inset: Caravaggio and the Grapes of Zeuxis
Caravaggio's Contribution to Genre-painting
Inset: On Deciphering the Pictures of the Rest during the Flight into Egypt - A Pastoral or Caravaggio's First Great Work?
Caravaggio as Narrator: History Paintings in Rome
The Altarpieces for Rome
The Altarpieces of Caravaggio's First Stay in Naples
On the Run in Malta and Sicily
Retrospective
Chronology
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Photographic Credits