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I’m currently reading this book, given to me by my lovely wife for my 38th birthday. She knows that Carrivagio is my best. Painter. Evar. This is only partially due to his technique; in fact, I probably prefer Diego Velazquez or Rembrant for skill and vision. You see, I like Carrivago for he fact that he was as deadly as Count Dante (although his weapon of choice was a sword, not his fingertips).

Michelangelo Merisi de Carrivagio was a duelist; a scofflaw murderer and a pugnacious street-tough who rendered his subjects with an uncompromising naturalism that would make him the most hated and influential Italian painter of his day. Carrivagio was larger than life. He had talent, he had vision, he had severe mental health problems, and he had enemies.

If you decide to pick up The Lost Painting, you’ll get a portrait of the life of Carrivagio, as well as a more detailed picture of the lives of the historians who are trying to peer through the fog of 400 years in order to better understand his work and his life.

Highly reccomended.

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