Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
“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 In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose (Goldengrove, Reading like a Writer) offers an...
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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 In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose (Goldengrove, Reading like a Writer) offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. —“Called “racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable” by the New York Times Book Review, Caravaggio includes eight pages of color illustrations, and is sure to appeal to art enthusiasts interested in one of history’s true innovators. Caravaggio is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins’ “Eminent Lives” series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061768903 (0061768901)
Publish date: February 9th 2010
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Too boring and too bad , someone who reads about Caravaggio supposed that he knows nothing ( or little )about his life and works the book have no images depicting the painting that " we " are talking about or part of the painting , then the narrative is flopped and boring , I have reached 100 pages...