Perspectives - Laurent Binet novel their relationship to one another

their relationship to one another

Starting from its Latin etymology (“in the middle of the Earth”)

Going through several phases of physical transformation – from writing on their skin as a child

more than 100 off-the-record conversations

Perspectives - Laurent Binet novel their relationship to one anotherFlorence, New Years Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is