Andrew Graham-Dixon is a prominent writer, television host, and historian. He has written a number of acclaimed books and has won the Hawthornden Prize, Britain’s top prize for writing about art. Considered “the most gifted art critic of his generation” (Robert Hughes), Graham-Dixon researched Caravaggio’s life for more than ten years.
"Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane reads like a
historical-swashbuckler-cum-detective-story while also providing an
up-to-date introduction to some of the most admired paintings in
Western art.
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*Michael Dirda - Washington Post*
"Graham-Dixon combed the criminal records of the era to glean
extraordinary details about the artist’s run-ins with the law. He
skillfully evokes the social and religious context of
turn-of-the-17th-century Italy."
*Ann Levin - Associated Press*
"An impressive web of biography, social history and art
history."
*Kirkus*
"This book [resees] its subject with rare clarity and power as a
painter for the 21st century."
*Hilary Spurling - New York Times Book Review*
"Graham-Dixon's biography brilliantly illuminates the life of an
artist who was no less shadowy than his canvases--a man capable of
both committing murder and creating ineffable beauty."
*Joseph Luzzi - Bookforum*
"[Graham-Dixon’s] achieved a masterpiece of his own: an
informative, fresh account of the painter’s life and death. Even
more impressive are the author’s powerful and accessible analyses
of Caravaggio’s paintings, commentary that leaves readers eager to
see the pieces at the heart of the story."
*Michelle Jones - Dallas Morning News*
"Caravaggio has rarely been seen in such depth and such relief as
in this marvellous biography."
*Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum*
"A thrilling lesson in the art of seeing, a sensual exploration of
the shadows of Caravaggio's sometimes violent but always Christian
world, a detective story with a highly satisfying ending."
*Peter Carey*
"Andrew Graham-Dixon brings the bad-boy genius of the 17th century
to life as vividly as if he were one of today's pop stars."
*John Richardson, author of A Life of Picasso*
"Andrew Graham-Dixon is the most gifted art critic of his
generation."
*Robert Hughes, former art critic of Time Magazine and author of
The Shock of the New*
"I have never known an art critic in London who responds so well,
year in and year out, to the challenge of subjects that cover the
whole range of Western art."
*John Russell, long-time art critic of The New York Times*
"Criticism that manages to be skeptical and humane, dryly witty and
deeply serious ..."
*Anthony Quinn*
"[Graham-Dixon] is an entertaining art historian. He took ten years
to come to terms with a very obdurate and highly original painter.
Time well spent."
*Economist*
"The most gifted art critic of his generation."
*Robert Hughes*
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