angels eminent

books:

Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives)
Francine Prose

HarperPress, 2007

The painter of miracles
Cal Roy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974

In the early 1900's in Mexico a poor village boy with a talent for painting loses nearly everything he values when he participates in the villagers' revolt against the oppression of the hacienda manager.

Caravaggio Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives)
Francine Prose

HarperCollins, 2005

illustrated with color plates of famous paintings, 149 pages with bibliography

Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives)

13 reviews
Francine Prose

Eminent Lives, 2005

Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
Provides a wonderful overview of his approach to painting and his intentions. I've visted his work in Italy and the book does convey the beauty and the power of his images as well as can be achieved via the written word. Gives one a good sense of the man and his work. I would have liked it to contain more information, thus a longer book, but this may have led into more technical information than ...

Andy Lakey: Art, Angels, and Miracles

3 reviews
Andy Lakey, Paul Robert Walker

Turner Pub, 1996

A truly loving story, direct from the heart
After being burnt out on intellectual self-help books I was guided by a dear friend to read Andy's well-illustrated book of angels. At first I thought it was doctrinaire, in a dry theological Sunday school way. I was in for a surprise, as the gentle, truly spiritual (as opposed to pious or religious) description of ever-present Angel guides began to take shape. Free of worn-out cliches and ...