Category Archives: Adoration

The Art of Time Travel

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Veronica Knox

                  Traveling back in time to rescue lost art, interact with artists, and be a fly on the wall in the fifteenth-century has been the premise of most of my books starring … Continue reading →

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He’s no oil painting!

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Veronica Knox

If burning books is bad consider this control freak… Florence, Feb 7-1497 Girolamo Savonarola was the mastermind (I use the term loosely) behind the burning of several of Sandro Botticelli’s paintings, and other works of a pagan theme. Only religious … Continue reading →

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Leonardo’s secret hiding place?

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Veronica Knox

The golden orb for the top of Florence’s Duomo, the Santa Maria del Fiore (Saint Mary of the Flowers), was under construction in the studio of Andrea Verrocchio when Leonardo da Vinci arrived there as a twelve-year-old apprentice.   The … Continue reading →

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Loving Botticelli

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Veronica Knox

I love the concept of a painting interacting with a viewer. ‘The Portrait of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde aged while the man remained young. I have always wanted to step into a narrative painting and look around behind the … Continue reading →

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Is Tom Cruise a Time Traveller?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Veronica Knox

This is the self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, age 24, from his Adoration of the Magi – 1475. Leonardo never finished this painting. He shows himself here (on the right side of the adoration) in the classic convention of the … Continue reading →

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