Caravaggio

by Christopher Peachment

Book Overview

My sight was always good. But color now takes on even greater riches. I no longer need the bright blues and reds, which I did so delight in when I was young. I see a hundred times more beauty now in a dark brown, or the pale tints of quiet flesh. Or a ray of light across a fur or a beaten earth floor or a suit of black armor. Such colors do not distract the eye, but rather let it concentrate on my forte, the human face. There I will have my theater,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312314485
• ISBN13: 9780312314484
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Addictive Read

Unputdownable! A tasty read that updates the life of the notorious painter with modern vernacular and without compromising narrative. Had this book for years but just got around to reading it. What a delicious surprise.

Irreverent delight

Peachment led me on an engaging and entertaining adventure through Caravaggio's life. I was not the least concerned by anachronisms and inaccuracies. What I got was an "artist's impression" - and I loved it. Do yourself a favour if you plan to read this book: get hold of a book of Caravaggio's pictures so that you can study each picture while reading "Caravaggio's" description of it. I bought Timothy Wilson-Smith's "Caravaggio" and went back and reread Peachment's book. There's great delight in comparing Wilson-Smith's formal and presumably "accurate" analysis with Peachment's ("Caravaggio's") irreverent possibly inaccurate account.