Audio Book Description:
The artist Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque, was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred yearsago, he rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but his rage finally led him to commit murder, forcing him to flee Rome a hunted man. Today, Caravaggio scholarsestimate that between sixty andeighty of his works are in existence. Somewheresurely, a masterpiece lies forgotten in a storeroom, or in a small parish churchor hanging ablove a fireplace, mistaken for a mere copy.