The Lost Painting

Last updated October 01, 2025

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece is a 2005 non-fiction book by the author of A Civil Action , 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

↑ Handy, Bruce (November 13, 2005). "'The Lost Painting': The Caravaggio Trail". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
↑ 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.
↑ Fleming, Michael (October 20, 2006). "Miramax Finds 'Lost'". Variety.

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[NYT-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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