Category Archives: Italy

CHARACTERS DYING TO TELL THEIR TALES

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Veronica Knox

Presenting three of my artful characters dying to speak: LISABETTA BUTI (the ‘Mona Lisa’ and Leonardo da Vinci’s kid sister), SANDRO BOTTICELLI (fifteenth-century master painter), and FINN CLEARY (a child victim onboard Titanic) When the red leaves fall, the October … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S CAMERA…

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Veronica Knox

the low tech high-renaissance 15th century i-phone Leonardo carried these ‘libricini’ (tiny notebooks) everywhere to record what he saw and jot down ideas. Texting was 500 years in Leonardo’s future. Writing was awkward. It’s not as if Leonardo carried a … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S GHOST DOG… BEST IN SHOW

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Veronica Knox

There is a fifteenth-century Italian painting in the National Gallery of London entitled ‘TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL’. I have a love/hate relationship with this 33 in. x 26 in. panel for a Florentine altarpiece. No doubt, this painting seen from … Continue reading →

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CELEBRATION OF A TYPO

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Veronica Knox

…how a 500-year-old spelling mistake was enough to confound history and gift me a premise for a time-slip ghost story                 Excerpt from ‘LISABETTA-a stolen glance’ [But for a single misshapen letter, I … Continue reading →

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I RECEIVED A LAUNDERED REVIEW

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Veronica Knox

‘THE INDIGO PEARL’ by V KNOX is ALL WASHED UP! The dangers of being a book: It’s dangerous to casually ask a man to please strip the sheets and throw them in the wash. More dangerous still, to be tumble … Continue reading →

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MEMORIES… FROM THE CORNERS OF MY FRIDGE…

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Veronica Knox

…Sfumato memories… of the way it might have been (*sfumato means misty watercolor)          A DAYDREAM IN THE LIFE OF A WRITER OF PARANORMAL HISTORY Leonardo’s experimental painting was missing a special something. He flexed his long … Continue reading →

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A TASTE OF INDIGO

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Veronica Knox

A time-slip paranormal romance takes an autistic child through an extraordinary journey of reincarnation and time-travel beyond evolution itself Excerpt from ‘THE INDIGO PEARL’ [When I was fourteen I fell in love with a boy in a painting. Leonardo da … Continue reading →

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MARTIAN WAKEUP CALL

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Veronica Knox

The sleeping Mars from ‘VENUS & MARS’ – SANDRO BOTTICELLI What do we actually know about Sandro Botticelli? What can we possibly know?  These are two different questions, and we can only answer the latter – the educated guess being … Continue reading →

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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Veronica Knox

            April 15 – 1452 The illegitimate son of a lawyer and a woman we know only as Catarina, is born in the town of Vinci, in Tuscany, Italy. The child’s unspectacular entrance into the … Continue reading →

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PEARL EARRINGS, A RED HAT, and A SMILE

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Veronica Knox

Be it an iconic image, a true representation, or a ‘tronie’, a face belies a thousand secrets A TRONIE: a face created from memory or a consummate sketch of several people and costumes that ‘stand in’ for no ‘one’ in … Continue reading →

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