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Peter Robb M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Henry Holt and Co. 2000 0805063560 / 9780805063561 Hardcover New
"'New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket), A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter As presented with blood and bone and sinew Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, ''There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.''Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma to paint with dazzling originality and fierce vitality, qualities that are echoed in Robb's prose. As with Caravaggio's art, M arrests and susps time to reveal what the author calls ''the'' ID: mon0000156143"
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