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The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. Fusing detec ...Show more
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. "The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velazquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book." (Colm Toibin). In 1 ...Show more
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