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Title: Caravaggio
Review: This is a fascinating book. It gives the reader a nearly physical experience of life in the Renaissance Italy that Caravaggio knew. The descriptions of specific paintings is absolutely right: even without the excellent illustrations. What also becames clear, was exactly how new, different, bold and shocking was Caravaggio's art.No biography of Caravaggio can concentrate on Caravaggio the artist-inovator and ignore Caravaggio the rebel-bad-boy. The presentation of the sexual indescretions, the equivical social status and ideological independence which caused the rift between Caravaggio and the incresingly conservative authorities in Rome read like chapers from a Mario Puzo godfather novel.
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