Category Archives: Lost Paintings

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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Victory for Art

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Veronica Knox

  The ‘Nike of Samothrace,’ also known as ‘The Winged Victory of Samothrace’ is a marble sculpture representing the goddess, Nike (Victory) This Hellenistic statue with its characteristic windblown draperies has been the presiding Queen of the Louvre since its … Continue reading →

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Boy Friday

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Meet Count Francesco Melzi, Leonardo’s most important apprentice, secretary, archivist, confidante, guardian bulldog, and the executor of his estate after a friendship of only thirteen years. Francesco, ‘Cecco,’ made his way to Leonardo’s studio in 1506 at the age of … Continue reading →

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The Saddest Words in Art…

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Veronica Knox

 NOW LOST… These two devastating words have inspired most of my novels. I write about missing art and the lost lives of artists and their forgotten models who, over time, have become the anonymous heroes and heroines of art. While … Continue reading →

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Nothing Up Her Sleeve

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Stuff happens… The lower third of this painting by Leonardo is missing. Where did it go? Was it destroyed through accident or by malicious design? What was this girl holding in her hands? I premise it was a bouquet of … Continue reading →

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Cherry White

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Veronica Knox

I spy with my little eye something beginning with fire   Erased emotions quicken when ethics challenges the cold logic of a sentient computer, programmed to save lost art first, regardless of the consequences to those who created it. genre: … Continue reading →

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Erotic Million Dollar Leonardo Destroyed by an Hysterical Woman?

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Veronica Knox

One 17th century woman may have decided this painting was an image too far. The original version of ‘Leda and the Swan’ by Leonardo da Vinci was last seen in 1625 and believed to be destroyed on the grounds of … Continue reading →

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