Showing posts with label art historians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art historians. Show all posts

Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Modigliani Scandal (1976, 1985) novel

Ken Follett originally published his novel The Modigliani Scandal in 1976 under the pseudonym of Zachary Stone, at least that's my assumption since it was copyrighted that year to that person. The novel was reissued under his own name in May 1985 as a paperback.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

The Bellini Madonna

Original title: The Bellini Madonna
Author: Lowry, Elizabeth.
Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
A debut novel, this novel's protagonist, down-and-out art historian Thomas Lynch, does not sound very likeable. He's on a quest for a vanished painting of the Madonna by the Italian artist Giovanni Bellini and ends up at the home of, so he believes, its last owner.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

Original Novel Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Author: Julia Navarro; translated from the Spanish La Hermandad de la Sabana Santa by Andrew Hurley
Publisher: Barcelona: Random House Mondadori, 2004 (hardcover); New York: Doubleday, 2006 (hardcover)


Art history thriller involving the Holy Shroud at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, and the Italian Art Crimes Department police force unit.