by TimothyWilson-Smith (Author)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original artist who led a short and violent life. His sexually provocative nude figures and his dramatic religious paintings have a psychological power and an undiminished capacity to shock and disturb after almost four centuries.
Timothy Wilson-Smith provides a lively and readable biography of an artist who has become an iconic figure in the late twentieth century, and presents a memorable selection of his works, from his early genre pictures to the dark and intense religious paintings of his years in exile.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Published: Dec 1998
ISBN 10: 0714834858
ISBN 13: 9780714834856
Book Overview: The author's other works include: Delacroix: A Life (1992); Napoleon and his Artists (1996)