The Lost Painting (26 page)

Read The Lost Painting Online

Authors: Jonathan Harr

Tags: #Art, #European, #History, #General, #Prints

BOOK: The Lost Painting
10.32Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J
ONATHAN
H
ARR
lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Rome. He is the author of
A Civil Action,
which was awarded the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award.

ALSO BY JONATHAN HARR

A Civil Action

Copyright © 2005 by Jonathan Harr

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

R
ANDOM
H
OUSE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Title-page and part-title art: Caravaggio (Michelangelo da Merisi),
The Taking of Christ,
1602, courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland and the Jesuit Community, who acknowledge the generosity of the late Dr. Marie Lea-Wilson

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Harr, Jonathan.
The lost painting / Jonathan Harr.—1st ed.
p.         cm.
1. Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573–1610—Criticism and interpretation.                  2. John, the Baptist, Saint—Art.                  3. Painting, Italian—Attribution.                  4. Painting—Expertising.                  I. Title.

ND
623.
C
26
H
37         2005
759.5—dc22                                                      2005048593

www.atrandom.com

eISBN: 978-1-58836-489-0

v3.0

Other books

Point of No Return by Paul McCusker
Merline Lovelace by The Tiger's Bride
No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson
Scorpion Mountain by John A. Flanagan
The Nicholas Feast by Pat McIntosh