Title: Il Caravaggio scomparso
Description: The author reconstructs in detail all the events related to the theft of the painting by Caravaggio entitled "Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis". The theft took place in Palermo in the autumn of 1969 and this book surveys the attempts undertaken to recover the painting as disclosed in these forty years, mainly through the Italian press. Discusses the sole copy of this painting made only a few years after the original by Paolo di Geraci and considered lost by all scholars, but idiscovered by the author himself in 1984 in Catania.
Subjects: Painting, Copying, Expertising, Art thefts
Places: Italy, Palermo
People: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610)