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by Vanora Bennett
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsThe year is 1527. The great portraitist Hans Holbein, who has fled the reformation in Europe, is making his first trip to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. In the course of six years, Holbein will become a close friend to the More family and paint two nearly identical family portraits. But closer examination of the paintings reveals that...
by Philippa Gregory
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsGregory vividly brings Henry VIII's court, with its intense intrigues, politics, and passions, to life though the lives, and deaths, of his fourth, fifth and sixth wives.
by Karen Essex
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsA haunting novel of rivalry, love, and betrayal that transports readers back to Renaissance Italy, Leonardo's Swans will have you dashing to the works of the great painternot for clues to a mystery but to contemplate the secrets of the human heart.
by Sarah Dunant
Published Dec 2004
Read ReviewsA compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion and power set in Florence during the Renaissance and told through the passionate voice of a heroine with the same vibrant spirit as her beloved city.
by Susan Vreeland
Published Jan 2003
Read ReviewsAn astonishing portrait of a woman that will captivate lovers of Gentileschi's paintings and anyone interested in the life of a woman who ignored the conventions of her day and dared to follow her heart.
by Dava Sobel
Published Oct 2000
Read ReviewsDramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.
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