The Lost Painting - Jonathan Harr

Jonathan Harr

Category: Art

Narrator: Campbell Scott

Tags: Art, True Crime, Adults

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Release date: October 25, 2005 Duration: 06:22:21, 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 was 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 didnt alter his