Isabella d'Este, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blonde and a precocious lover and collecteir of art.
Born into wealth amid the political and artistic foment of the Italian Renaissance, worldly and ambitious Isabella and naïve Beatrice Este, sisters and rivals, compete for the attentions of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan--even though ...
Then, days later, everyone would travel to Milan for the feste honoring the new couple. The duke's astrologer, Messer Ambrogio, thought by him to be infallible, had singled out the day after tomorrow as the most fortuitous for the ...
You place me on a mattress on the floor covered in furs near the hearth, and Iyelp in pain as a thorn in the back of my crown pierces my scalp. Gently, you remove the crown and kiss my wound. But as you toss the crown aside, ...
Stealing Athena is the story of two women, separated by centuries but united by their association with some of the world's greatest and most controversial works of art.
The legendary Renaissance man and amateur sleuth is back in this exciting follow-up to The Queen's Gambit.
Set against the drama of 15th Century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself.
Sifting through sorrows and joys, da Vinci¿s world is uncovered. Finally, after five hundred years, Myers unlocks a secret just waiting to be released: the hidden truths of Leonardo da Vinci.
The imagined sound of Leonardo's swan is of course literary and relates to poetic evocations and scientific beliefs going back to the classics: Plato, Aristotle, Ovid and Virgil, this last sometimes nicknamed the Mantuan Swan.
Bettie Page--the most celebrated pin-up model ever--can seduce a whole new audience in this paperback edition of the hardcover bestseller--the only Bettie Page book authorized by and featuring a Foreword by Page herself.
Engineering a living chess game consisting of members of the royal court for Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo da Vinci's triumph is marred by the murder of one of the chess "pieces," and he is caught up in court intrigue when he ...