| Playing Time |
062218 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 91599 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Campbell Scott. |
| Note |
Duration: 6:22:18. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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John, the Baptist, Saint -- Art.
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Painting, Italian -- Attribution.
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Painting -- Expertising.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Scott, Campbell.
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