"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 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 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, made him an artist who speaks across the
centuries to modern day.
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 part of the "Eminent
Lives" series from HarperCollins, a selection of biographies by
distinguished authors on canonical figures.