Présentation de l'éditeur
This book offers a juxtaposition of Bacon and Caravaggio - the two greatest interpreters of human representation in its deepest and most innovative aspects. Both painters, in their time, succeeded in producing, with upsetting originality, the tragedy of human existence, not merely as a dramatic abstract condition or chance sequence of personal and historical events but as a private feeling - intimate and inseparable from existence itself. Caravaggio's work expresses his anxiety for the spiritual salvation of mankind, Bacon expresses the threat of the unknown, which lays inside the human spirit; both painters investigated the depths of the human psyche.
Biographie de l'auteur
Claudio Strinati is an art critic, author and art historian. His field of study is particularly concentrated on 16th and 17th centuries. He has been curator of many exhibitions and cultural events in Italy and abroad. Michael Peppiat is an art critic, author and art historian. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1964, when he was appointed arts editor at Le Monde, where he remained until 1969. In the mid-1970s he began reporting on cultural events across Europe for 'The New York Times' and 'The Financial Times', becoming Paris correspondent for several art magazines, notably 'Art News' and 'Art International'. In 1994, Peppiatt returned to London, where he wrote the biography of Francis Bacon (1909-1992), to whom he had been a close friend and commentator for thirty years. Peppiatt has curated numerous exhibitions worldwide.
