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Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning  A Civil Action ,  The Lost Painting  is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, moving from one rooming house to another, constantly in and out of jail, all the while painting works of transcendent emotional and visual power. He rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but success didn’t alter his violent temperament. His rage finally led him to commit murder, forcing him to flee Rome a hunted man. He died young, alone, and under strange circumstances. Caravaggio scholars estimate that between sixty and eight

Who reads The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece?

Author

Jonathan Harr

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group; Random House

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588364890

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Sociology

Rating

4.2 / 5 (945 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14