{"product_id":"caravaggio-painter-of-miracles-9780061768903","title":"Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.\" -- \u003cem\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCaravaggio, New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled \"racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable\" by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review, Caravaggio\u003c\/em\u003e includes eight pages of color illustrations, and is sure to appeal to art enthusiasts interested in one of history's true innovators. \u003cem\u003eCaravaggio\u003c\/em\u003e is part of the \"Eminent Lives\" series from HarperCollins, a selection of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProse, Francine:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eFrancine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, the highly acclaimed \u003cem\u003eMister Monkey\u003c\/em\u003e; the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eLovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eA Changed Man\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and \u003cem\u003eBlue Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised \u003cem\u003eAnne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, \u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eReading Like a Writer\u003c\/em\u003e, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50502972899602,"sku":"9780061768903","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1445b116-8e94-4d44-a9ce-f1530dfc7bec.jpg?v=1730779718","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/caravaggio-painter-of-miracles-9780061768903","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}