CaravaggioAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 4 October 2005
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Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both. Boston Sunday Globe
InCaravaggio, New York Timesbestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayedstreet boys, prostitutes, the poor, the agedwas a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, made him an artist who speaks across the centuries to modern day.
Called racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable by theNew York Times Book Review, Caravaggioincludes eight pages of color illustrations, and is sure to appeal to art enthusiasts interested in one of historys true innovators.Caravaggiois part of the Eminent Lives series from HarperCollins, a selectionof biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.
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