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Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles

"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

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In Caravaggio, New York Timesbestselling 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, Caravaggioincludes eight pages of color illustrations, and is sure to appeal to art enthusiasts interested in one of history's true innovators. Caravaggiois another engaging entry in the HarperCollins' "Eminent Lives" series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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