Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
by Francine Prose
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Presents a biography of late sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and chronicles his life, later years in exile in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, and his influence on later generations of artists.Tags
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After reading Jonathan Harr's dreadful novel about the lost Caravaggio, this nonfiction book was a relief, as well as sumptuously written.
A quick biography of the compelling and mysterious Caravaggio. This book, written in a gripping and concise style, provides a good background to the artist but ultimately seems unsatisfying in its brevity.
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Francine Prose was born on April 1, 1947. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1988 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. Francine Prose novel The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical with the same title by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. It ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater show more at Lincoln Center in New York City in the fall of 2007. Prose has served as president of PEN American Center, a New York City based literary society of writers, editors, and translators that works to advance literature in 2007 and 2008. Prose novel, Blue Angel, a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. One of her novels, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. In 2014 her title Lovers at the Chameleon Club - Paris 1932, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
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- 2005
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- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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