Caravaggio
a passionate life
de Desmond Seward · Publicada por primera vez en 1998
"Michelangelo da Caravaggio, one of the most popular of all the great painters, had an amazingly colorful and adventurous career, full of dramatic contrasts. He was a religious artist who used prostitutes and castrati as his models, a mystic with a police record, the favorite of cardinals, and the Pope's portrait painter, who committed murder; an outlaw from the Roman hills, lionized in Naples; a Knight of Malta imprisoned in a Maltese dungeon, hunted by hired assassins in a vendetta with an unknown enemy and horribly disfigured by sword cuts in a Neapolitan brothel. Ironically, he died at an early age on a lonely Tuscan beach, after receiving a pardon that would have allowed him to become an even greater painter."--BOOK JACKET. "Based on the latest research, and written like an adventure story, the book concentrates on the man without neglecting the artist, vividly re-creating his life in early Baroque Italy and as a "monk of war" in Malta."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Caravaggio (1998)
William Morrow · inglés
