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M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

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A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter As presented with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, "There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same."Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma to paint with dazzling originality and fierce vitality, qualities that are echoed in Robb's prose. As with Caravaggio's art, M arrests and susps time to reveal what the author calls "the theater of the partly seen." Caravaggio's wild persona leaps through these pages like quicksilver; in Robb's skilled hands, he is an immensely attractive character with an astonishing connection to the glories and brutalities of life.
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From Library Journal

Of books about the art and life of the great Caravaggio, there are apparently no end. Unfortunately this comprehensive consideration of the master's life and oeuvre neither particularly expands our understanding nor further illuminates our appreciation. Attentive as he is to the immediate world around the artist, Robb's hostility to Catholicism and his insensibility to the religious content and emotion of Caravaggio's mature paintings vitiates not only the sometimes perceptive value of his analyses but also the quality of his contextual reconstruction. His evocation of qualities in the paintings are not always apparent and are at times dubiously inferred from problematic biographical data. Similarly troubling are his sexualization of the artist's content and the sometimes feverish conspiratorial nets that are educed from a limited body of documentation. "Caravaggesque" provocations, vulgarity, neologisms, colloquial jargon, Australian slang, and smart-alecky allusions mar the verve of Robb's prose. Collections desiring a contextual approach will be better served by Helen Langdon's Caravaggio: A Life (LJ 6/1/99), while those concerned with accessible formal elucidation and comprehensive illustration will wish to acquire Catherine Puglisi's Caravaggio, LJ 4/1/99.
---Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The painter now known as Caravaggio, but whose signature read Marisi and whom Robb refers to as M (which could stand for "mystery" given the dearth of facts about his life), has become a holy grail for art historians. The astonishing naturalism of M's work, his penetrating and empathic vision, inspires scholars to attempt to render his life with the same precision and respect. Robb's robust biography follows Helen Langdon's balanced study and charts its own path. Having evinced his passion for Italian history in his acclaimed Midnight in Sicily (1998), Robb energetically recreates M's repressive and brutal milieu, analyzes his "wild and strange" temperament, and offers a convincing theory about his puzzling death. His mettlesome assertions regarding M's ruthlessness, "hairtriggered touchiness," resiliency, and homosexuality, as well as his confident theories regarding his crimes and punishments, make for great narrative vitality and drama. Robb also reveals heretofore unknown aspects of M's miraculous techniques. Robb portrays M as a mythical and tragic figure blessed with almost supernatural artistic gifts and cursed with fatal flaws and a cruel and envious world. Donna Seaman

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Description:

A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter As presented with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, "There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same."Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma to paint with dazzling originality and fierce vitality, qualities that are echoed in Robb's prose. As with Caravaggio's art, M arrests and susps time to reveal what the author calls "the theater of the partly seen." Caravaggio's wild persona leaps through these pages like quicksilver; in Robb's skilled hands, he is an immensely attractive character with an astonishing connection to the glories and brutalities of life.
Read more

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Of books about the art and life of the great Caravaggio, there are apparently no end. Unfortunately this comprehensive consideration of the master's life and oeuvre neither particularly expands our understanding nor further illuminates our appreciation. Attentive as he is to the immediate world around the artist, Robb's hostility to Catholicism and his insensibility to the religious content and emotion of Caravaggio's mature paintings vitiates not only the sometimes perceptive value of his analyses but also the quality of his contextual reconstruction. His evocation of qualities in the paintings are not always apparent and are at times dubiously inferred from problematic biographical data. Similarly troubling are his sexualization of the artist's content and the sometimes feverish conspiratorial nets that are educed from a limited body of documentation. "Caravaggesque" provocations, vulgarity, neologisms, colloquial jargon, Australian slang, and smart-alecky allusions mar the verve of Robb's prose. Collections desiring a contextual approach will be better served by Helen Langdon's Caravaggio: A Life (LJ 6/1/99), while those concerned with accessible formal elucidation and comprehensive illustration will wish to acquire Catherine Puglisi's Caravaggio, LJ 4/1/99.
---Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

The painter now known as Caravaggio, but whose signature read Marisi and whom Robb refers to as M (which could stand for "mystery" given the dearth of facts about his life), has become a holy grail for art historians. The astonishing naturalism of M's work, his penetrating and empathic vision, inspires scholars to attempt to render his life with the same precision and respect. Robb's robust biography follows Helen Langdon's balanced study and charts its own path. Having evinced his passion for Italian history in his acclaimed Midnight in Sicily (1998), Robb energetically recreates M's repressive and brutal milieu, analyzes his "wild and strange" temperament, and offers a convincing theory about his puzzling death. His mettlesome assertions regarding M's ruthlessness, "hairtriggered touchiness," resiliency, and homosexuality, as well as his confident theories regarding his crimes and punishments, make for great narrative vitality and drama. Robb also reveals heretofore unknown aspects of M's miraculous techniques. Robb portrays M as a mythical and tragic figure blessed with almost supernatural artistic gifts and cursed with fatal flaws and a cruel and envious world. Donna Seaman

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