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发表于2024-12-29
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An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries.
The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, moving from one rooming house to another, constantly in and out of jail, all the while painting works of transcendent emotional and visual power. He rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but success didn’t alter his violent temperament. His rage finally led him to commit murder, forcing him to flee Rome a hunted man. He died young, alone, and under strange circumstances.
Caravaggio scholars estimate that between sixty and eighty of his works are in existence today. Many others–no one knows the precise number–have been lost to time. Somewhere, surely, a masterpiece lies forgotten in a storeroom, or in a small parish church, or hanging above a fireplace, mistaken for a mere copy.
Prizewinning author Jonathan Harr embarks on an spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as The Taking of Christ–its mysterious fate and the circumstances of its disappearance have captivated Caravaggio devotees for years. After Francesca Cappelletti stumbles across a clue in that dusty archive, she tracks the painting across a continent and hundreds of years of history. But it is not until she meets Sergio Benedetti, an art restorer working in Ireland, that she finally manages to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle.
Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action , The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. The fascinating details of Caravaggio’s strange, turbulent career and the astonishing beauty of his work come to life in these pages. Harr’s account is not unlike a Caravaggio painting: vivid, deftly wrought, and enthralling.
". . . Jonathan Harr has gone to the trouble of writing what will probably be a bestseller . . . rich and wonderful. . .in truth, the book reads better than a thriller because, unlike a lot of best-selling nonfiction authors who write in a more or less novelistic vein (Harr's previous book, A Civil Action , was made into a John Travolta movie), Harr doesn't plump up hi tale. He almost never foreshadows, doesn't implausibly reconstruct entire conversations and rarely throws in litanies of clearly conjectured or imagined details just for color's sake. . .if you're a sucker for Rome, and for dusk. . .[you'll] enjoy Harr's more clearly reported details about life in the city, as when--one of my favorite moments in the whole book--Francesca and another young colleague try to calm their nerves before a crucial meeting with a forbidding professor by eating gelato. And who wouldn't in Italy? The pleasures of travelogue here are incidental but not inconsiderable." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Jonathan Harr has taken the story of the lost painting, and woven from it a deeply moving narrative about history, art and taste--and about the greed, envy, covetousness and professional jealousy of people who fall prey to obsession. It is as perfect a work of narrative nonfiction as you could ever hope to read." -- The Economist
From the Hardcover edition.
喬納森•哈爾(Jonathan Harr),現居美國麻省,在史密斯學院教授非小說寫作教程。自2000年開始,在羅馬、都柏林與倫敦探訪參與發掘《逮捕耶穌》真跡的相關人士。
同意其中一位的評價,前半很拖。但當你牢記它是一部非小說時,事情就變得有意思瞭。書隻值三顆星,第四顆星是給caravaggio的。
評分同意其中一位的評價,前半很拖。但當你牢記它是一部非小說時,事情就變得有意思瞭。書隻值三顆星,第四顆星是給caravaggio的。
評分同意其中一位的評價,前半很拖。但當你牢記它是一部非小說時,事情就變得有意思瞭。書隻值三顆星,第四顆星是給caravaggio的。
評分剛開瞭個頭,實在是太無聊瞭,看我還能堅持多久。Then when I realized that it wasn't a fiction, it got interesting.
評分剛開瞭個頭,實在是太無聊瞭,看我還能堅持多久。Then when I realized that it wasn't a fiction, it got interesting.
喜欢那句写在扉页上的话, “有时候,当你去寻找一样东西,结果会发现另一样更美好的东西,那是对你用心寻找并坚持到底的奖赏”
評分我目前看了个开篇(看掉了第一部-英国人),气势和文笔中的脉络都是直击读者内心、行云流水。。。。目前看来还是不错的对艺术类文献、书籍有兴趣的朋友可以关注一下这本书
評分 評分喜欢那句写在扉页上的话, “有时候,当你去寻找一样东西,结果会发现另一样更美好的东西,那是对你用心寻找并坚持到底的奖赏”
評分The Lost Painting pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024