Caravaggio: reflections and refractions

Contents: Introduction: the Caravaggio conundrum, Lorenzo Pericolo and David M. Stone Caravaggio betrayals: the lost painter and the 'great swindle', David M. Stone Caravaggio's painting technique: a brief survey based on paintings in the National Gallery, London, Larry Keith Caravaggio's Portrait of Maffeo Barberini in the Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Keith Christiansen Touching is believing: Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas in counter-reformatory Rome, Erin E. Benay Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin, Giulio Mancini, and the Madonna Blasphemed, Frances Gage Talking pictures: sound in Caravaggio's art, Catherine Puglisi Caravaggio's angels, Steven F. Ostrow Caravaggio and the 'truth in pointing', Jonathan Unglaub Caravaggio the barbarian, Philip Sohm The bottom line of painting Caravaggesque, Richard E. Spear Galileo Galilei and Artemesia Gentileschi: between the history of ideas and microhistory, Elizabeth Cropper Perfectly true, perfectly false: cardsharps and fortune-tellers by Caravaggio and La Tour, Gail Feigenbaum Rembrandt and Caravaggio: emulation without imitation, H. Perry Chapman Interpreting Caravaggio in the second half of the twentieth century: between Galileo and Heidegger, Giordano Bruno and Laplanche, Lorenzo Pericolo Bibliography Index.