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Christopher Peachment

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West Sussex, The United Kingdom

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Historical Fiction

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Christopher Peachment was born in West Sussex, England, in 1948. He worked as a stage manager at the Royal Court and many other theatres in England before turning to journalism including work as an art critic. In the 1980s, he was a film editor for Time Out magazine in London, later becoming Deputy Literary Editor and Arts Editor for The (London) Times. He was the author of Caravaggio and The Green and the Gold. He lived in Hoxton, London. He died in January 2023.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 125 ratings · 24 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Caravaggio: A Novel 3.58 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“And David and Goliath I have done before, but this time there is a difference. David holds the head at arm's length and looks disgusted. And onto Goliath's severed head, I put my own features. The head hangs in darkness so that the black hair and beard framing the face blend off into the shadows, and there are four thin ropes of dark blood trailing down into space from the neck. And in one eye of the freshly severed head, there is still the faint glimmer of life.
That's me and that's the last painting I ever did.
Spectator, viewer, audience, however you care to call yourself; I address you here, with this, my final picture.
Cast a cold eye on it all, and on my work. I am still alive. ”
― Christopher Peachment, Caravaggio

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“Perhaps this is the basis of friendships, I do not know. Each man seeks in another that part of himself which is missing. Thus do people make themselves more whole. ”
― Christopher Peachment, Caravaggio

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