CARAVAGGIO: A LIFE SACRED AND PROFANE
Written by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
Stock no. 1831448
Published by The Penguin Group. Circa 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. In the course of this desperate life Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour plates. xxviii and 514 pages. ISBN: 9780241954645. Third printing. Red title to spine lightly faded to pink, light reading creases to spine. Covers lightly scuffed. Text block slightly grubby. Else contents clean.