EAN: 9781787304499

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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 centre of Europe. Bursting with characters and colour Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we've never seen it before - a dazzling hugely entertaining novel of court machinations murder and art.

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