M: The Caravaggio Enigma (Paperback, Re-issue)

A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year
As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" ("Times Literary Supplement") by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological war against which, despite all odds, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, "There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same." Robb's masterful biography "re-creates the mirror Cravaggio held up to nature," as Hilary Spurling wrote in "The New York Times Book Review," "with singular delicacy as well as passion and panache."

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2011
First published:	July 2011
Authors:	Peter Robb
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	567
Edition:	Re-issue
ISBN-13:	978-1-4088-1989-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Baroque art Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4088-1989-9
Barcode:	9781408819890

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