Authors: Jonathan Harr
Tags: #Art, #European, #History, #General, #Prints
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.
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ANDOM
H
OUSE
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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
eISBN: 978-1-58836-489-0
v3.0