The Forgery Of Venus: A Novel by Michael Gruber

Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough—artists whose works sell for millions—but this style of painting is no longer popular, and he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. So Wilmot makes his living cranking out parodies for ads and magazine covers. A break comes when an art dealer obtains for him a commission to restore a Venetian palace fresco by the eighteenth-century master Tiepolo, for a disreputable Italian businessman. Once there, Wilmot discovers that it is not a restoration but a re-creation, indeed a forgery. At first skeptical of the job, he then throws himself into the creative challenge and does the job brilliantly. No one can tell the modern work from something done more than two hundred years ago.

Publisher:	Harper Collins
Year:	2008
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780060874483
Condition:	Good
Description:	DJ. DJ frayed along edges; part of back flap cut out. Scribble on front end paper.

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SKU: 1594035
Location: Fiction