商品简介 “Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.” — Boston Sunday Globe In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged—was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, made him an artist who speaks across the centuries to modern day. Called “racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable” by the New York Times Book Review, Caravaggio includes eight pages of color illustrations, and is sure to appeal to art enthusiasts interested in one of history’s true innovators. Caravaggio is part of the “Eminent Lives” series from HarperCollins, a selection of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures. “将华丽的散文与华丽的艺术品相匹配,散文将每一个图像作为戏剧启示的时刻来回应,无论是感性的还是精神的,而且往往两者兼而有之。” ——《波士顿星期日环球报》 在《纽约时报》畅销书作家弗朗辛·普罗斯的《卡拉瓦乔》中,对这位有史以来最伟大的画家之一的生活和作品进行了引人入胜的描述。卡拉瓦乔挑战了他那个时代的审美传统。他对普通人的真实描绘——街头男孩、妓女、穷人、老年人——是一次深刻的革命性创新,给一代又一代的艺术家留下了印记。他坚持从自然中绘画,无论是宗教的还是世俗的,都表现出情感的真实,使他成为一位跨越几个世纪直至现代的艺术家。被《纽约时报》称为“生动、想象力丰富、可读性强”回顾一下,卡拉瓦乔包括八页彩色插图,肯定会吸引对历史上真正的创新者之一感兴趣的艺术爱好者。卡拉瓦乔是哈珀柯林斯出版社“名人传记”系列的一部分,该系列精选了杰出作家关于经典人物的传记
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