The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr Summary
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A true detective story masquerading as art history. Jonathan Harr's "The Lost Painting" follows scholars racing to find Caravaggio's missing masterpiece. So riveting that art professors wish they'd assigned it instead of textbooks - turning meticulous research into an irresistible treasure hunt.
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When a Dusty Canvas Holds a $50 Million Secret
What if you walked past a priceless masterpiece every day without knowing it? In a modest Jesuit residence in Dublin, priests ate their meals beneath a dark, grimy painting for decades, never suspecting they were dining under one of art history's most sought-after treasures. The canvas showed a dramatic biblical scene-soldiers seizing Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane-but a small plaque identified it as the work of Gerard Honthorst, a competent but unremarkable Dutch painter. No one questioned this attribution until August 1990, when a sharp-eyed Italian restorer named Sergio Benedetti noticed something that made his pulse quicken: the distinctive brushwork, the masterful rendering of hands emerging from darkness, the psychological intensity captured in each face. Could this forgotten painting actually be Caravaggio's lost masterpiece, missing for nearly two centuries? This question launched one of the most thrilling detective stories in modern art history-a tale spanning four centuries, three countries, and countless archives, involving passionate scholars, meticulous restorers, and one of history's most brilliant and troubled artists. The journey to authenticate this single painting would reveal not just a lost Caravaggio, but the extraordinary human drama of art scholarship itself.
The Genius Who Painted in Blood and Shadows
Two Young Scholars and a Cellar Full of Secrets
The Moment Everything Changed
The Restoration That Nearly Went Wrong
When Secrets Can't Stay Hidden
What Gets Found When We Keep Looking
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