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^ Read * Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives) by Francine Prose ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives) She knows yet better how to put in words her knowledge sentiments and nora leibovici Francine Prose knows how to look at paintings. She knows yet better how to put in words her knowledge sentiments and insight. Therefore this book is so nice to read, to study and to enjoy. For all lovers of the art of Caravaggio it is a must. A Concise and Precise Brief Study of Caravaggio The series of books Eminent Lives being produced by General Editor James Atlas for Atlas Books, a division of Harper Collins
| Title | : | Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060575603 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
All rights reserved. She stuffs her pages with redundant adjectives ("wan, exhausted, used up," "constant and unchanged") and finds no point too trite to repeat three times: "You can watch an artist realizing that what he is doing is succeeding, that the paint is doing precisely what he wants it to do, that his intention and purpose are finding their way onto the canvas." Even those with only a casual interest in the artist would be better served by Helen Langdon's 1998 biography Caravaggio: A Life, which is as accessible as it is scholarly and is now out in paperback. . As with the other volumes in the Eminent Lives series, groundbreaking research is not expected. Yet despite her obvious love for the artist, Prose has little of substance to say about him. Fair enough. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly The first thing to know about this life of the Italian baroque painter Caravaggio is that it
She knows yet better how to put in words her knowledge sentiments and nora leibovici Francine Prose knows how to look at paintings. She knows yet better how to put in words her knowledge sentiments and insight. Therefore this book is so nice to read, to study and to enjoy. For all lovers of the art of Caravaggio it is a must. A Concise and Precise Brief Study of Caravaggio The series of books Eminent Lives being produced by General Editor James Atlas for Atlas Books, a division of Harper Collins is a true project that fills a vital need in the paucity of the arts education in this country at present. Coupling excellent writers with biographies of great people is long overdue and after reading Francine Prose's very fine but succinct evaluation of th. A Life of Contradictions Caravaggio, like many great artists, lived a life of contradiction. He was a career criminal, but created some of the greatest religious paintings of the age. Prose's book is simply a distillation of what others have written about Carravagio. What emerges is an incomplete portrait of a man who remained mysterious up to his untimely death in his thirties. The highlights of the boo
“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 GlobeIn Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling 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, 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 another engaging entry in the HarperCollins’ “Eminent Lives” series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.
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