{"product_id":"m","title":"M","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA\nNew York Times\nNotable Book of the Year\nAs vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with \"\nblood and bone and sinew\n\" (\nTimes Literary Supplement\n) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological war against which, despite all odds, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, \"\nThere was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.\n\" Robb's masterful biography \"\nre-creates the mirror Caravaggio held up to nature\n,\" as Hilary Spurling wrote in\nThe New York Times Book Review\n, \"\nwith singular delicacy as well as passion and panache.\n\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buy3X.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52911027192032,"sku":"9780747548584_Kitabay Jaipur_58-G1","price":15.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.carouselstore.co.uk\/products\/m","provider":"Carousel Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}