Andrew Graham-Dixon
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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
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2011
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3 editions
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Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary
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2008
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26 editions
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Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel
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2009
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9 editions
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Renaissance
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1999
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6 editions
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A History of British Art
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1996
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5 editions
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Howard Hodgkin
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In the Picture : The Year Through Art
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2003
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3 editions
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Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
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2025
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6 editions
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Tiger Seen on Shaftesbury Avenue: The National Gallery's Grand Tour
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2008
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Příběh malířství
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“Caravaggio’s art is made from darkness and light. His pictures present spotlit moments of extreme and often agonized human experience. A man is decapitated in his bedchamber, blood spurting from a deep gash in his neck. A man is assassinated on the high altar of a church. A woman is shot in the stomach with a bow and arrow at point-blank range. Caravaggio’s images freeze time but also seem to hover on the brink of their own disappearance. Faces are brightly illuminated. Details emerge from darkness with such uncanny clarity that they might be hallucinations. Yet always the shadows encroach, the pools of blackness that threaten to obliterate all. Looking at his pictures is like looking at the world by flashes of lightning.”
― Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
― Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
“Borromeo also organized partial quarantines, especially for women, whom he regarded not only as more likely to occasion sin but as the primary carriers of plague (because, he said, they talked so much and constantly visited each other’s houses).”
― Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
― Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
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