Caravaggio by Graham-Dixon, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Dedication List of Illustrations Maps Preface and Acknowledgements Caravaggio

PART ONE: Milan, 1571–92

DARKNESS AND LIGHT FACTS AND FICTIONS MODEST ORIGINS, NOBLE CONNECTIONS THE ANGEL WITH SWORD AND SHIELD TOWN AND CITY CARLO BORROMEO ‘EGO TE ABSOLVO’ THE POWER OF THE IMAGE THE SACRED MOUNTAIN PLAGUE THE BAD APPRENTICE ‘THEY COMMITTED A MURDER’

PART TWO: Rome, 1592–5

VIOLENT TIMES IN ROME CLEMENT VIII IN THE ARTISTS’ QUARTER CITY OF MEN, CITY OF WHORES THE BROTHERS CESARI SELF-PORTRAIT AS BACCHUS, BOY WITH A BASKET OF FRUIT BOY BITTEN BY A LIZARD GYPSIES AND ROGUES AND A CARDINAL SNARED

PART THREE: Rome, 1595–9

FRANCESCO MARIA BOURBON DEL MONTE ‘IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE’ THE LUTE PLAYER AND THE BASKET OF FRUIT PAINTINGS FOR PRAYER AND DEVOTION BETWEEN SACRED AND PROFANE BACCHUS AND HEAD OF THE MEDUSA IN THE LABORATORY OF THE ALCHEMIST PAINTERS, SWORDSMEN AND WHORES ‘I’LL GET YOU NEXT TIME’ PAINTING FILLIDE A BROTHERLESS MAN

PART FOUR: Rome, 1599–1606

THE ST MATTHEW CHAPEL A BACK-STABBING, AND OTHER MISADVENTURES TWO PAINTINGS FOR TIBERIO CERASI IN THE HOUSE OF THE MATTEI DIRTY FEET LONG LIVE V THE BLACK WINGS OF ENVY A DAGGER, A PAIR OF EARRINGS, A WORN-OUT BELT A PLATE OF ARTICHOKES AND OTHER STORIES STONES THROWN AND A DOOR DEFACED A CACKLING OF GEESE LENA WHO STAYS ON HER FEET IN THE PIAZZA NAVONA THE CASE OF THE DAMAGED CEILING ‘SO MUCH TROUBLE’ DEATH ON A TENNIS COURT BANDO CAPITALE

PART FIVE: The Alban Hills, Naples, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Porto Ercole, 1606–10

ON THE RUN IN THE CITY OF BEGGARS THE SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY THE MECHANICS OF EVIL CARAVAGGIO AND RUBENS FLIGHT FROM NAPLES THE FRIARS OF WAR THE ISLE OF ST JOHN SIGNED IN BLOOD COMPETING WITH MICHELANGELO APELLES IN PRISON ‘A ROTTEN AND DISEASED LIMB’ THE BURIAL OF ST LUCY AND A BLACK DOG CALLED CROW THE TYRANT’S EAR LAZARUS RISING ADORATION, DESOLATION ‘LIKE A CRIMINAL ESCAPING FROM HIS GUARDS’ THE KNIGHT’S REVENGE TWO LAST PAINTINGS THE BOATMAN’S STORY AFTERMATH DOING JESUS LIKE CARAVAGGIO

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