Description

An Italian village on a hilltop close to the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the ocean, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit with a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a thing of beauty of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two generations. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a guy beset by personal demons.