Caravaggio's Lady
Keith West
Caravaggio’s Lady, like its forerunner Caravaggio’s Boy, brings vividly alive the world of the painter and of his patron and protectress, the Marchesa Costanza Colonna, in all its stark contrasts of exquisite beauty and abject squalor, genuine piety and corrupt religiosity, devoted love and rapacious violence – the curious mixture of the savage and the sublime that is late Renaissance Italy. The author’s deep knowledge of the technique and history of the paintings together with an unusual sensitivity to the spirituality that lies behind them, opens up their meaning and context in a richly powerful way – and yet with a lightness of touch that makes this a highly readable, riveting story.
Very Revd Jeffrey John, former Dean of St Albans, now Chaplain to the Anglican Church of St George, Paris.
Vivid, transportive and artful, West’s writing has the unmistakable mark of a true expert in his field
AJ West (no relation) Author of Times bestseller ‘The Spirit Engineer’ and ‘The Betrayal of Thomas True.’ Committee member the Society of Authors.
‘Caravaggio’s Boy’ has a storyline that is vivid for everyone who loves art history
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