The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today by Terence Ward

The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today

Terence Ward

200 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history reflective medium-paced
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Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retribution for killing a man in a brawl. Three years later he was in Naples, where he painted The Seven Acts of Mercy. A...

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