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Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. 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... read more

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HE WAS THIRTY-NINE when he died, in the summer of 1610.

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  1. Francine Prose (Author)
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