Caravaggio’s trail: Researching my novel about the Italian artist
I went all over Europe and North America on Caravaggio’s trail, tracking works and the places that touched his life. But in particular to Rome, Naples …
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My Caravaggio novel: St. Catherine made me write it
How a portrait in Madrid inspired me to write my Caravaggio thriller On the upper floor of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in central Madrid, I wandered …
Caravaggio’s works in my historical thriller
Here are some of Caravaggio’s works featured in my novel A Name in Blood Young Caravaggio’s self-portrait is second from the right. 1595, age 23 …
Writing with Paint: Learning Oils for My Caravaggio Novel ‘A Name in Blood’
To research A Name in Blood, my novel about the mystery of Caravaggio’s death, I traveled to all the places where the great artist lived and worked. I …
Rescuing Caravaggio from a Bad Rap
He was a raging psycho, an uncontrollably lustful homosexual, and a bit of a bitch. Somehow he also managed to produce some of the most sensitive and …
Researching my Caravaggio novel: Learning to Kill
In the chapel of the Pio Monte della Misericordia, I stood before the great painting now known as Seven Works of Mercy (Caravaggio called it Our Lady …