Perspectives by Laurent Binet #literature and seemingly a world away

and seemingly a world away from the semi-detached house in Pinner where he had supported Watford FC as a child

ISBN: 9781472299208

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Perspectives by Laurent Binet #literature and seemingly a world awayFlorence, New Years 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