Tuscan Daughter: A Novel - Brossura

Rochon, Lisa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1443463515 ISBN 13: 9781443463515

Casa editrice: Harperavenue, 2021

Riassunto

A novel of beauty and inspiration set in Renaissance Florence about a young and defiant female artist searching for her mother

Florence, 1500&;a city that glitters with wealth and artistic genius is also a place of fierce political intrigue, walled off from the unrest in the surrounding Tuscan countryside. In this moment, a peasant girl finds herself alone after her father is killed and her mother disappears. Young Beatrice must dare to enter the city to sell her family&;s olive oil in order to survive, but also to search the streets and opium dens for her missing, grieving mother. 

Walking barefoot from her outlying village, Beatrice is given grudging permission to pass through the city gates to sell olive oil to the artists&;Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli&;who toil to elevate the status of the Florentine Republic. Lonely yet defiant, the peasant girl draws on the stone walls of Florence in secret as a way to express her pain. While desperately searching the city for her mother, Beatrice befriends the upstart Michelangelo as he struggles to sculpt the David. She also comes to know a cloth merchant&;s wife who is having her portrait painted by the aging Leonardo da Vinci, renowned through the land as Master of the Arts. Bonds deepen even while Michelangelo and Leonardo are pitted against each other. 

Set during five epic years in the early 1500s when Florence was rebranding itself through its creative geniuses, Tuscan Daughter reveals the humanity and struggles of a young woman longing to find the only family she has left and be an artist in her own right, and the way she influences the artistic masters of the time to stake everything on the power of beauty to transform and heal.

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Informazioni sull'autore

LISA ROCHON is as an award-winning architecture critic, cultural commentator and the author of Up North: Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land. She has contributed numerous essays and articles to books and journals such as Alphabet City, Canadian Architect, Metropolis and Architectural Record (NYC). She is the two-time winner of the National Newspaper Awards for her “City Space” column in the Globe and Mail, and the recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s President’s Award for Architectural Journalism. Educated at the University of Toronto and in Paris at Sciences Po and L’Ecole du Louvre, she travelled to Florence many times to retrace the steps of Lisa del Giocondo, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci as she researched this novel, and was granted rare access to Leonardo’s original drawings at Windsor Castle. She’s passionate about art and ideas and is a frequent commentator on television and radio. You can find out more about her at www.citylab.space.

 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Harperavenue
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1443463515
• ISBN 13: 9781443463515
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile