Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles

Caravaggio, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was a revered artist and a notorious street fighter wanted for murder who died at 39 under tragic circumstances. 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.

ISBN 9780060575601 | E | HB