John Brewer, Author . Oxford Univ. $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-19-539690-4
At first, the tale seems rather ordinary: in 1920, Andrée and Harry Hahn offer for sale a painting, La Belle Ferronnière
, that they claim is by Leonardo da Vinci. An art dealer questions the painting's authenticity—and the...
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John Brewer, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $40 (721p) ISBN 978-0-374-23458-4
In one brilliant volume, Brewer (The Sinews of Power), who teaches history at the European University Institute in Florence, examines the evolution of the visual arts, literature, music and theater in 18th-century England, managing to elucidate both
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John Brewer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-26103-0
Historian Brewer (The Pleasures of the Imagination
) uses an 18th-century English murder as the starting point for an intriguing exploration of the very nature of writing history itself. In 1779, Martha Ray, the mistress of the Earl of Sandwich, who
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