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Art Psychology Bible Illustrations Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) Italy History 1492-1559 Matar, Hisham 1970- Travel Italy Siena Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 Appreciation Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 Contemporaries Mural painting and decoration, Italian Vatican City Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance Vatican City Painting, Italian Italy SienaHarr, Jonathan.
Summary: A decaying palazzo on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome makes a discovery that inspires a search for a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a revolutionary painter beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: "After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Company 2002