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Zusatztext "Fine biography--and a study of why revolutionary art can be reviled in its own time and revered in another." Informationen zum Autor Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey ; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 ; A Changed Man , which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel , which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer , which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. Klappentext 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. Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) moved to Rome when he was twenty-one years old. He became a brilliant and successful artist, protected by the influential Cardinal del Monte and other patrons. But he was also a man of the streets who couldn't seem to free himself from its brawls and vendettas. In 1606 he fled Rome, apparently after killing another man in a dispute. He spent his last years in exile, in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, at once celebrated for his art and tormented by his enemies. Through it all, he produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. Eventually he received a pardon from the Pope, only to die, in mysterious circumstances, on the way back to Rome in 1610. Francine Prose presents the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all painters with passion and acute sensitivity. Zusammenfassung “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 In Caravaggio! New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. 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! made him an artist who speaks across the centuries to modern day. 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 part of the “Eminent Lives” series from HarperCollins! a selection of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures. ...
