The Lost Painting
Wednesday, 31 May 2006 @ 21:38
The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by Jonathan Harr (2005)
Based on numerous interviews and written in the style of a (historical/detective?) novel, The Lost Painting chronicles the story of the quest for Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ. In 1992, Francesca Cappelletti, an art history student hired by Giampaolo Correale to investigate the authenticity of the two identical paintings of St. John, stumbled upon a clue of the painting that’d been lost for more than two centuries.
