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Book Synopsis The Titian Committee by : Iain Pears
Download or read book The Titian Committee written by Iain Pears and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent to Venice by Rome's Art Theft Squad to help local police solve a murder, Flavia di Stefano embarks on a search for the killer of a member of the famed Titian research committee.
Book Synopsis The Titian Committee by : Iain Pears
Download or read book The Titian Committee written by Iain Pears and published by . This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent to Venice to help solve a murder, Flavia di Stefano of the Rome Art Theft Squad teams up with the local carabinieri to catch the killer
Book Synopsis AN Instance of the Fingerpost by : Iain Pears
Download or read book AN Instance of the Fingerpost written by Iain Pears and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1663 Oxford, a servant girl confesses to a murder. But four witnesses--a medical student, the son of a traitor, a cryptographer, and an archivist--each finger a different culprit...
Download or read book The Last Judgement written by Iain Pears and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jonathan Argyll agrees to transport the Death of Socrates from a gallery in Paris to its new owner in Rome, he has no idea that such a worthless, nondescript painting could cause such a stir.
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raphael Affair written by Iain Pears and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first novel in Iain Pears's acclaimed art crime series, introducing General Bottando and Flavia di Stefano of the Italian National Art Theft Squad. It has an evocative Italian setting and an authentic art historical background.
Book Synopsis Death and Restoration by : Iain Pears
Download or read book Death and Restoration written by Iain Pears and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flavia di Stefano of Rome's art police is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the monastery of San Giovanni. With the help of art dealer Jonathan Argyll, they attempt to solve the mystery.
Download or read book The Portrait written by Iain Pears and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the dazzling achievement of his bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost (“May well be the best historical mystery ever written.” —The Boston Globe) and The Dream of Scipio (“A virtuoso display of craftsmanship.” —Maclean’s), Iain Pears returns with a stunning novel of suspense and revenge. An influential art critic in the early years of the twentieth century journeys from London to the remote island of Houat, off France’s northwest coast, to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted, once acclaimed artist living in self-imposed exile. Over the course of the sitting, the painter recalls their years of friendship, the double-edged gift of the critic’s patronage, the power he wielded over aspiring artists, and his apparent callousness in anointing the careers of some and devastating the lives of others. The balance of power between the two men shifts dramatically—and ominously—as the critic becomes a passive subject; and as the painter slowly captures the character of the man on canvas, we discover why he left London suddenly and mysteriously at the height of his success and why now, with dark determination, he has taken on this unusual commission. Set against the dramatic, untamed landscape of Brittany, during one of the most explosive periods in art history, The Portrait is rich with atmosphere and suggestion, and psychological complexity. With the marvellous detail of a miniature, it brings to the fore the great artistic figures of the late nineteenth century, and their ambitions and desires. And it is a novel you will want to begin again immediately after turning the last chilling page, to read once more with a watchful eye and appreciate the hand of an ingenious storyteller at work.
Download or read book The Dream of Scipio written by Iain Pears and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.
Download or read book The Appraisal written by Anna Porter and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of Kate AtkinsonÕs Jackson Brodie novels comes this yearÕs smart new thriller with literary chops When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his familyÕs Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies, and a complicated history that leads her to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of StalinÕs notorious gulags. As she works to unravel the truth of the paintingÕs ownership and dodges her tail, the dogged ex-detective Attila Feher, Helena is forced to call on all her considerable skills to stay alive and out of jail. Smart, fast-paced, and wildly entertaining, The Appraisal is a terrific thriller set against BudapestÕs corruption and lost promise.
Download or read book Giotto's Hand written by Iain Pears and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble. His theory that a single master criminal, dubbed 'Giotto', is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue.
Book Synopsis Councils and Committees by : United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
Download or read book Councils and Committees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Titian Remade written by Maria H. Loh and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.
Book Synopsis Reports of Committees by : United States. Congress. House
Download or read book Reports of Committees written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised) by : Colleen Barnett
Download or read book Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised) written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
Download or read book When Gods Die written by C. S. Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Brighton, England, in 1811, when the wife of an aging marquis is found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent, wearing an ancient necklace with mysterious ties to Sebastian St. Cyr, Sebastian turns sleuth to investigate the woman's death.
Book Synopsis The Immaculate Deception by : Iain Pears
Download or read book The Immaculate Deception written by Iain Pears and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license. For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly. Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own, tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired general Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.
