Botticelli's bastard
By: Stephen Maitland-Lewis
Publisher: Glyd-Evans Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780983259688
Subjects: Art treasures in war; Art thefts; Art and the war; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Notes: Art restorer Giovanni Fabrizzi is haunted by an unsigned renaissance portrait. which could be the work of Botticelli, facing the dilemma that he would have to give up the painting to its rightful owner if part of the Nazi art work plunder of European artwork during World War II. Fabrizzi's obsession  strains his marriage and worries his son and in the pursuit of truth, uncovers more than he expects.