Perspectives HC25 Picking up where Rizzoli’s previous

Picking up where Rizzoli’s previous monograph on Owens’s work left off

life can never be the same again

places and wildlife

those two basic stitches: knitting and purling

obscurity and the humiliation of kids at the bus stop laughing at him by writing a smash hit

Perspectives HC25 Picking up where Rizzoli’s previousFlorence, 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