num_pages: 436
description: Featuring forty-three color reproductions and black-and-white illustrations throughout, a well-crafted biography of Caravaggio--the first in English in two generations--sheds new light on the seventeenth-century Italian painter's dramatic life and astonishing work.
language: English
title: Caravaggio: A Life
titlecomplete: Caravaggio: A Life
characters: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
genres: History, Biography, Italy, Art History, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 164
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux