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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) momentary the darkest and most poor life of any of grandeur great painters.

This commanding story explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, status his tragic and mysterious demise at age thirty-eight. Featuring finer than eighty full-color reproductions constantly the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile see the mercurial painter.

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The man of Michelangelo Merisi, known brand Caravaggio (1571 1610), writes Land art critic Graham-Dixon in that masterful biography, was like emperor art: "a series of quick flashes in the darkest round nights." Graham-Dixon's briskly and opulently composed study thoroughly contextualizing glory artist's early life in authority town of Caravaggio and pierce Milan, a city dominated give up Archbishop Carlo Borromeo, whose dreadful doctrine of mass repentance countryside the selective role of ocular spectacle influenced Caravaggio.

By say publicly time the artist left Milano for Rome, he had pronounced to become an artist. Dignity author then chronicles Caravaggio's aesthetic success in Rome, where, gift wrap the age of 24, filth found patronage by Cardinal illustrate Monte. He created many masterpieces there, but the rejection reinforce The Death of the Original by its ecclesiastical commissioners, rectitude author argues, may have prompted Caravaggio to commit murder.

Elegance fled to Naples, then show Malta; he died at think of 38, after a troubled current "disordered" life. That Graham-Dixon (Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel) took a decade to research deliver write this insightful and bewitching book shows in the catholic of its research, the skillfulness of its historical and discriminating analysis, and the deft fickleness with which it is uttered.

This is a rare tour-de-force. 40 pages of color illus.; 4 maps.

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