Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
by Prose, Francine
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060575603
- ISBN 13
- 9780060575601
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers; Atlas Books, 2005. 149 pages, colour illustrations; 19 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed - street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged - was 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, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time. Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) moved to Rome when he was twenty-one years old. He became a brilliant and successful artist, protected by the influential Cardinal del Monte and other patrons. But he was also a man of the streets who couldn't seem to free himself from its brawls and vendettas. In 1606 he fled Rome, apparently after killing another man in a dispute. He spent his last years in exile, in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, at once celebrated for his art and tormented by his enemies. Through it all, he produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. Eventually he received a pardon from the Pope, only to die, in mysterious circumstances, on the way back to Rome in 1610. Francine Prose presents the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all painters with passion and acute sensitivity. / Francine Prose is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. A distinguished critic and essayist, she has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at major universities. She lives in New York City." - Publisher. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 12mo.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025392
- Title
- Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
- Author
- Prose, Francine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060575603
- ISBN 13
- 9780060575601
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers; Atlas Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / Italian; European / 5. Baroque & Rococo;
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