How Long to Read Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger

How Long Does it Take to Read Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger?

It takes the average reader and 50 minutes to read Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger by Naira Matevosyan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

AUTHOR`S NOTE: Of books about the oeuvre of Caravaggio, there are apparently no end. A mercurial artist, who lived less than 40 years, his legacy is one of volatile extremes. For better or worse, his uneven biography is in itself a work of art. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted notoriously provocative religious and classical tableaux, yet left few traces (no letters, no table talk, no notebook or treatise) of his life beyond his art. Painting with an intensity of realism never before equalled, Caravaggio`s impact was immediate, profound and everlasting. He transmuted a realism in a variety of ways, making it both the climax and golden age of European art. But his realism was too close to life, too real to comfort. Bound to appreciate the supernatural mastery of Caravaggio`s chiaroscuro translating the moral turpitude and death as the musts, this book also evaluates the artist`s personal motives, and psychological state of freezing the ecstatic foreshortening on a two-dimensional plate, through geometrical reasoning of the golden ratio, gnomonic growth and descend. In other words, this is not a "coffee-table art-book." It lands us at the port named 'geometry of emotions' to admire Caravaggio`s 'metaphyisical theaters' and experience a third-degree intimidation from his style of dynamic symmetry between life and death, astute and simpleton, dignity and humiliation. Illustrating 20 masterpieces out of the several hundreds, this book runs a 'geometrical diagnostics' on three paintings: "Cardsharps," "The fortune teller," and "The Incredulity of Saint Thomas." A few canvases of Flemish and Venice artists presenting absolutely different styles, yet incorporating root 3 and 5 golden ratios (1.618), with square root (1.272...) ( "Jiovanni Arnolfini and His Bride" by Van Eyck, or "Cupid and Psyche" by Canova), are pilot-tested to form the control group in building the theory. Next, on Caravaggio`s exemplary canvases "The lute player," "Narcissus," and "The Beheading of Saint John," it explains the artist`s ambitions in contrasting extremely realistic figures with extremely artifical background of the brown and black, pushing his subjects closer to the spectator. Finally, this book presents some events in Caravaggio`s turbulent life, including his apprenticeship, womanizing, his vision of Christianity, and the departure.

How long is Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger?

Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger by Naira Matevosyan is 50 pages long, and a total of 12,500 words.

This makes it 17% the length of the average book. It also has 15% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 8 minutes to read Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger aloud.

What Reading Level is Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger?

Caravaggio - The Geometry of Anger is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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