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"Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. 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, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time. In ""Caravaggio"", Francine Prose presents the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all painters with passion and acute sensitivity."

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Everything a casual reader needs to know about flamboyant Baroque artist Caravaggio... Makes you want to go to the museum. --U.S. News & World Report

Combines astute examination of his work with just a plain good yarn about a street tough who painted transcendent pictures. --Entertainment Weekly Elegant . . . [Prose] fills out the intrigue of Caravaggio's own life and writes terrifically about the paintings. --Hartford Courant Everything a casual reader needs to know about flamboyant Baroque artist Caravaggio... Makes you want to go to the museum. --U.S. News & World Report Fine biography--and a study of why revolutionary art can be reviled in its own time and revered in another. --Kirkus Reviews In this engaging and informative short biography . . . Prose vividly brings [Caravaggio's] paintings to life. --Los Angeles Times Book Review 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 Tautly written and insightful. --Seattle Times 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 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 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 Everything a casual reader needs to know about flamboyant Baroque artist Caravaggio... Makes you want to go to the museum. --U.S. News & World Report

In this engaging and informative short biography . . . Prose vividly brings [Caravaggio's] paintings to life. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Francine Prose is the author of 15 books of fiction, including Goldengrove, A Changed Man, and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her latest book is Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. A former president of PEN American Center, she lives in New York City.

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