Publisher:
London, Allen Lane: 2010
red cloth, xxviii, 514 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, CONTENTS: Milan, 1571-92 -- Rome, 1592-5 -- Rome, 1595-9 -- Rome, 1599-1606 -- The Alban Hills, Naples, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Porto Ercole, 1606-10 Short-listed for BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and dangerous life of any of the great painters. In the course of this life, Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. This book sho...
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