Many others–no one knows the precise number–have been lost to time. Caravaggio scholars estimate that between sixty and eighty of his works are in existence today. He died young, alone, and under strange circumstances. His rage finally led him to commit murder, forcing him to flee Rome a hunted man. He rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but success didn’t alter his violent temperament. 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 was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. 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.
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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. 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.
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