I, Caravaggio

By Eugenio Volpe

Book Overview

The famous bi-sexual libertine who would be more at home on Tinder than at a Roman Cathedral, gallivants through the streets like brush strokes to become a Baroque 16th century icon.The year is 1604 and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is a superstar, his blockbuster paintings packing the pews of Rome. Caravaggio should be reveling in prosperity, but the artistic trailblazer and nefarious street-brawler is his own worst enemy. While the genius paints masterpieces, the ruffian in him can't stay out of jail. Caravaggio is a man at existential odds with himself until falling in love with Lena Antognetti, the prostitute modeling his newest Virgin pictures. Caravaggio paints Lena into a life of wealth and celebrity, but the power couple's provocative fame earns them a horde of resentful and jealous enemies. I, Caravaggio dramatizes the superstar's psychological unraveling under the sexual and political pressures of the Catholic Reformation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955904758
• ISBN13: 9781955904759
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Clash Books
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"