Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment

Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

An enthralling fictional insight into the mind and underbelly of an artist whose rebellious life and revolutionary art shook the late-Renaissance world.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment

Peachment’s imagined Caravaggio, while still a child, overhears his parents discussing one of his sketches, and realizes he has a talent which sets him apart from the world. He leaves family and home forever to map out a solitary traveller’s life. Caravaggio became a revolutionary of his time, a rebellious and dangerous man to know, a man governed by his genius, his indiscriminate sexual appetite and his murderous rage. His name was sought far and wide in the late-Renaissance world for his art. And there was a price on his head for at least one murder. This is Caravaggio’s confession, told in humorous, blasphemous, often brutal prose, which cleverly beguiles the reader into understanding the art that was so celebrated and the life that caused so much outrage.
Christopher Peachment is a journalist and renowned film critic. He lives in London.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780330487320
ISBN 10 0330487329
Title Caravaggio
Author Christopher Peachment
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2003-01-17
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note Unavailable