Caravaggio - A Life Sacred and Profane

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Graham-Dixon Klappentext For more than twenty-five years, Andrew Graham Dixon has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and more recently, the Sunday Telegraph . He has written a number of acclaimed books, including A History of British Art and Renaissance, and is twice winner of the Hawthornden Prize, Britain's top prize for writing about art. He is one of the leading figures in broadcasting in the UK, having presented seven major television series on art for the BBC. Zusammenfassung Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This book presents the readings of Caravaggio's pictures, which show how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Graham Dixon, Andrew Graham-Dixon
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.06.2011
• EAN: 9780241954645
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95464-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Series: PENGUIN PRESS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, baroque, Art & design styles: Baroque, Individual artists, art monographs