

Caravaggio
Painter of Miracles
Author: Francine Prose
Narrator: Ann Richardson
Unabridged: 4 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/11/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Art, Biography & Autobiography, Arts & Entertainment
Synopsis
Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) moved to Rome when he was twenty-one years old. He became a brilliant and successful artist, protected by the influential Cardinal del Monte and other patrons. But he was also a man of the streets who couldn't seem to free himself from its brawls and vendettas. In 1606 he fled Rome, apparently after killing another man in a dispute. He spent his last years in exile, in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, at once celebrated for his art and tormented by his enemies. Through it all, he produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. Eventually he received a pardon from the Pope, only to die, in mysterious circumstances, on the way back to Rome in 1610.