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Title Compass: Private Life Of An Easter Masterpiece
Published Australia : ABC, 2010
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Summary In 1993 the National Gallery of Ireland made a stunning announcement: a lost painting by Caravaggio had been discovered in Dublin. Compass: Private Life Of An Easter Masterpiece: The Taking of Christ, tells the story of this lost treasure.The Taking of Christ, which represents Jesus Christ being captured in the Garden of Gethsemane, was well-known from copies. But the original had been lost for over 200 years. Then in 1990 the Jesuit fathers at St Ignatius, Dublin, called on the National Gallery to clean a painting that had been hanging in their residence for nearly 60 years. The restorer immediately recognised the composition, but what convinced the experts that this painting wasn't just another copy? How had it got to Ireland? And what happened over the years to cause its disappearance? This fascinating program takes a closer look at the painting itself, reveals the details that identify the painting as a Caravaggio and unearths how and why the painting remained undiscovered for so long.PRODUCTION DETAILS:A Fulmar Television and Film production for BBC. Producer/Director: Ian Michael Jones; Compass Executive Producer: Rose Hesp
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2010-04-04 at 22:10:00
Notes Classification: G
Subject Excavations (Archaeology)
Masterpiece, Artistic.
National Gallery of Ireland.
Painting, Ancient.
Taking of Christ (Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da)
Ireland -- Dublin.
Form Streaming video
Author Benedetti, Sergio, contributor
Capwell, Tobias, contributor
Carr, Dawson, contributor
Doogue, Geraldine, host
Featherstone, Rupert, contributor
Gash, John, contributor
Jones, Jonathan, contributor
Jones, Pamela M, contributor
Keaveney, Raymond, contributor
Marini, Maurizio, contributor
Ogilvy, Francis, contributor
Spike, John T, contributor
Verdon, Timothy, contributor