The Lost Painting

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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
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AuthorJonathan Harr
LanguageEnglish
SubjectDiscovery and authentication of a lost painting by Caravaggio
GenreNon-fiction, art history
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
Pages271
ISBN 9780375508011

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece is a 2005 non-fiction book by the author Jonathan Harr. The book traces the discovery in the 1990s of a Caravaggio painting, through experts' comparing two versions of the picture, and their trying to discern which was the original of The Taking of Christ (c. 1602). [1] The book is an extension of an article that had appeared in the New York TimesMagazine in December 1994. [2] One of the people whose life is recounted in the book is the Oxford philosopher and ontologist of the infosphere Luciano Floridi.

In 2006, Variety reported that Miramax might produce a film version of the book. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Handy, Bruce (November 13, 2005). "'The Lost Painting': The Caravaggio Trail". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Harr, Jonathan (December 25, 1994). "A Hunch, an Obsession, a Caravaggio". New York Times Magazine. Vol. 144, no. 49921. p. 26. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
  3. ↑ Fleming, Michael (October 20, 2006). "Miramax Finds 'Lost'". Variety.


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