description: This work provides a biography of Carvaggio, piecing together together what happened during his short, brilliant, violent, and ill-documented life. It evokes early 17th-century Italy and the cities where Carvaggio lived and painted in all their seething, crude and dangerous colour.
language: English
title: M
titlecomplete: M
characters: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
genres: Art History, Biography, Historical, Italy, LGBT, Australia, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Art, History
ratings_count: 6601
places: Milan, Lombardy, Naples
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Victorian Premier's Literary Award
category: Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Biography Award
publisher: Bloomsbury Books