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Perspectives [electronic resource]

Laurent Binet2025
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Brought to you by Penguin. Florence, New Year’s Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation. Letters fly back and forth carrying news of political plots and speculation about the killer’s identity – between Maria and her aunt Catherine de’ Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her scheming agents in Florence; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. Meanwhile, the Pope is banning books and branding works of art immoral. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot c...
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[Place of publication not identified] : Random House UK, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (213 MB, 07:45:14 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Rachel BavidgeNarrator: John SackvilleNarrator: Justin Avoth
Audience:
Adult
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Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781529947212
Language:
English
BRN:
531991
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