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That is exactly what novelist and Wall Street Journal arts critic Francine Prose tries to do in “Caravaggio.” In this work, she often refers to the words of Caravaggio’s 16th century biographers (and more recent ones, too), and integrates all opinions about his work and his life, in order to paint her own admiring and sometimes contagiously enthusiastic portrait of a brilliant, yet quite shady, character...
...Caravaggio was not even his real name...
Michelangelo Merisi is thought to have been born in Milan in 1571. Caravaggio is the town where he was raised by his mother after his father, a builder and architect, died of plague...
...with a painter of religious scenes and former pupil of Titian, in Milan. Why did he choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...
...Baroque class, I am entirely out of place in a sea of pastels and high ponytails. The population is almost exclusively female and everyone seems to have carefully preened for the Caravaggio slides. This leads to vivid freshman year recollections of a lecture by Stanley Cavell in which my inadequacy of style was all too obvious. The room was full of a kind of person I had never known before at Harvard: a bunch of 19-year-olds looking more fiercely European than any European ever could...