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Nov 12, 2012 · Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and mysterious death at age thirty-eight.
Sep 12, 2011 · 4,402 ratings305 reviews. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) lived probably the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan and Rome through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and prostitutes ...
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Sep 30, 2011 · Born a week before the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, when Turkish invaders were driven out of Christendom with fearsome slaughter on both sides, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was just 6 years...
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Nov 10, 2011 · Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic...
Jun 26, 2010 · Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. Andrew Graham-Dixon's biography of Caravaggio glosses over the artist's reputation for whoring and brawling. Peter Conrad. Sat 26 Jun 2010 19.11 EDT.
Jan 1, 1998 · Caravaggio: A Life. Helen Langdon. 3.86. 169 ratings18 reviews. Featuring forty-three color reproductions and black-and-white illustrations throughout, a well-crafted biography of Caravaggio--the first in English in two generations--sheds new light on the seventeenth-century Italian painter's dramatic life and astonishing work.
