Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Andrew Graham-Dixon

W. W. Norton & Company, Nov 10, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 544 pages

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year

"This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review

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. Featuring more than eighty full-color reproductions of the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile of the mercurial painter.

What people are saying

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - BrokenTeepee - LibraryThing

This is my first book from Audible and while I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it - Mr. Ballerini has a magical voice - I think perhaps art books are best left to the coffee table. I missed the ...

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

User Review  - Book Verdict

New publications (e.g., Michael Fried's The Moment of Caravaggio and John T. Spike's Caravaggio) continue to appear in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Caravaggio. This one takes ...

Contents

• List of Illustrations and Illustration: ix
• Milan c 1590 Rome c 1600: xxii
• Rome 15925 61: 5
• The Alban Hills Naples Malta: 327
• Epilogue: 443
• Further Reading: 483

About the author

Andrew Graham-Dixon is a prominent writer, television host, and historian. He has written a number of acclaimed books and has won the Hawthornden Prize, Britain’s top prize for writing about art. Considered “the most gifted art critic of his generation” (Robert Hughes), Graham-Dixon researched Caravaggio’s life for more than ten years.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
• Author: Andrew Graham-Dixon
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
• ISBN: 0393082938, 9780393082937
• Length: 544 pages
• Subjects: Art / History / Baroque & Rococo; Art / Individual Artists / General; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; History / Europe / Italy