Caravaggio - Softcover
"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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Review:
"Tautly written and insightful." -- Seattle Times
Tautly written and insightful. --Seattle Times
"Fine biography--and a study of why revolutionary art can be reviled in its own time and revered in another."--Kirkus Reviews
"Racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable . . . Prose brings to Caravaggio a fresh and unflinching eye."--New York Times Book Review
"Tautly written and insightful."--Seattle Times
"Combines astute examination of his work with just a plain good yarn about a street tough who painted transcendent pictures."--Entertainment Weekly
"Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual."--Boston Sunday Globe
"Prose's concentrated interpretation... clearly and descriptively explicates the pioneering painter's unique perception of the miraculous in everyday life."--Booklist
"Elegant . . . [Prose] fills out the intrigue of Caravaggio's own life and writes terrifically about the paintings."--Hartford Courant
"In this engaging and informative short biography . . . Prose vividly brings [Caravaggio's] paintings to life."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
About the Author:
Tautly written and insightful. --Seattle Times
"Fine biography--and a study of why revolutionary art can be reviled in its own time and revered in another."--Kirkus Reviews
"Racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable . . . Prose brings to Caravaggio a fresh and unflinching eye."--New York Times Book Review
"Tautly written and insightful."--Seattle Times
"Combines astute examination of his work with just a plain good yarn about a street tough who painted transcendent pictures."--Entertainment Weekly
"Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual."--Boston Sunday Globe
"Prose's concentrated interpretation... clearly and descriptively explicates the pioneering painter's unique perception of the miraculous in everyday life."--Booklist
"Elegant . . . [Prose] fills out the intrigue of Caravaggio's own life and writes terrifically about the paintings."--Hartford Courant
"In this engaging and informative short biography . . . Prose vividly brings [Caravaggio's] paintings to life."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherOceano De Mexico
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 9707770392
- ISBN 13 9789707770393
- BindingPaperback
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