Description

"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.