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MARTIAN WAKEUP CALL
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
Posted in Adoration, art history, Books, fantasy, Fine Art, Florence, Florence. Italy, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Italian renaissance, Italy, paranormal romance, REINCARNATION, romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, time travel, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author
Tagged Adoration the novel, art history, ghosts, historical fantasy, historical fiction, History, Italian renaissance, literary fiction, paranormal romance, reincarnation, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, time travel, V. Knox author, women's fiction
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PEARL EARRINGS, A RED HAT, and A SMILE
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
Posted in art history, Books, fantasy, Fine Art, Florence, Florence. Italy, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Italian renaissance, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, literary fiction, Lost Paintings, magical realism, paranormal romance, REINCARNATION, romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, the 'Mona Lisa', time travel, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
Tagged art history, ghosts, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Italian renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, LISABETTA - a novel by V KNOX, Lisabetta Buti, literary fiction, lost paintings, love story, Mona Lisa, paranormal romance, reincarnation, Silent K Publishing, time-slip adventure, V. Knox author, veronica knox artist, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
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PITCHING ON A STORMY SEA
The concept you pitch could turn out to be the story that cannot be named! I’m an indie author. And one thing I’ve learned, after pitching directly to agents at a writers conference, is that beauty is in the eye … Continue reading
Posted in Adoration, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, android, art history, Books, fantasy, Florence, Florence. Italy, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Italian renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, literary fiction, Lost Paintings, magical realism, middle-grade time-slip adventure, paranormal romance, PEARL BY PEARL, poetry, REINCARNATION, romance, Sandro Botticelli, science fiction, science-fiction fantasy, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, the 'Mona Lisa', THE BEDE SERIES - V KNOX, The INDIGO PEARL, THE UNTHINKABLE SHOES -novel, time travel, Titanic, Titanic's lost shoes, Titanic's unknown child, Twinter the novel, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
Tagged 'The UNTHINKABLE SHOES' the novel, Adoration the novel, art history, Egyptian history, fantasy, ghosts, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Italian renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, Lisabetta Buti, literary fiction, love story, Mona Lisa, paranormal romance, paranormal science-fiction, reincarnation, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, the BEDE SERIES by V KNOX, time travel, time travel fiction, time-slip adventure, Titanic, Titanic inspired fiction, Twinter the novel, V. Knox author, veronica knox artist, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
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WONDROUS & DISASTROUS
APRIL 15 – A DAY TO REMEMBER Leonardo da Vinci was born – April 15, 1452 HMS Titanic sank – April 15, 1912 It’s uncanny that these are both subjects about which I’m most passionate. I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fine Art, Historical Fantasy, Leonardo da Vinci, literary fiction, magical realism, Nova Scotia, paranormal romance, REINCARNATION, romance, Sandro Botticelli, Second Lisa, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, the 'Mona Lisa', THE UNTHINKABLE SHOES -novel, Titanic, Titanic's lost shoes, Titanic's unknown child, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author
Tagged 'The UNTHINKABLE SHOES' the novel, ghosts, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Italian renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, Lisabetta Buti, love story, paranormal romance, reincarnation, Second Lisa the novel, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, Titanic, Titanic inspired fiction, V. Knox author, veronica knox artist, Veronica Knox author
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WHERE WERE YOU?
If meditation is time travel, then I have been there with Leonardo and Sandro and Lisa. I brushed against their cloaks of country-rough sackcloth or city-thick velvet trimmed in fur, and run my fingers over the heavy embroidered stuff of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, fantasy, Fine Art, Florence, Florence. Italy, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Italian renaissance, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, literary fiction, poetry, romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, the 'Mona Lisa', V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author
Tagged Andrea Verrocchio, art history, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Italian renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, Lisabetta Buti, literary fiction, lost paintings, magical realism, Mona Lisa, poetry, time travel, V. Knox author, veronica knox artist, Veronica Knox author
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The first cellular phone?
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN I see an angel reading a text message. This painting, Tobias and the Angel (c. 1467) from the studio of Andrea Verrocchio, is considered to contain three of the earliest instances of painting by Leonardo … Continue reading
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Tagged 'MONA LISA' BIOGRAPHY, Andrea Verrocchio, art history, autism, ghosts, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Italian renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, Lisabetta Buti, lost paintings, Mona Lisa, Sandro Botticelli, the angel and Tobias, V. Knox author, veronica knox artist, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
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THE TALE OF A DEADLY GRAPE-HEAD CLUSTER
When art shouldn’t imitate art – a brief history of the ‘art’ of story… or lack thereof In art history 101, I learned the terms ‘grape-head cluster’ and the ‘archaic smile’. Art history 201 introduced me to ‘warts and all’ realism… … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Byzantine art, Cimabue, Duccio, fantasy, Fine Art, Ghirlandaio, Giotto, grape-head clusters, Greek sculpture, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, literary fiction, Lost Paintings, paranormal romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, the 'archaic smile', time travel, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
Tagged Adoration the novel, art history, ghosts, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Italian renaissance, paranormal romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, time travel fiction, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
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LOVE POETRY BEYOND THE GRAVE
Fiction glorifies the art of paranormal romance, reincarnation, and eternal bliss Two Dantes say so: “I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing … Continue reading
Posted in Books, fantasy, Fine Art, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, literary fiction, Lost Paintings, magical realism, Nova Scotia, paranormal romance, REINCARNATION, romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, THE UNTHINKABLE SHOES -novel, time travel, Titanic, Titanic's lost shoes, Titanic's unknown child, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
Tagged 'The UNTHINKABLE SHOES' the novel, Adoration the novel, art history, fantasy, ghosts, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Italian renaissance, paranormal romance, romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, supernatural, time travel, time-slip adventure, Titanic, Titanic inspired fiction, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author, women's fiction
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The Art of Time Travel
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
Posted in Adoration, android, Books, cherry white, fantasy, Fine Art, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Leonardo da Vinci, literary fiction, Lost Paintings, romance, Sandro Botticelli, science fiction, science-fiction fantasy, Second Lisa, supernatural, time travel, Twinter the novel, women's fiction
Tagged art history, fantasy anthropology, fantasy evolution, Leonardo da Vinci, lost art, Mona Lisa, mythology, Nike of Samothrace, paranormal romance, renaissance art, romance, time travel fiction, time travel novels, time-slip adventure, Veronica Knox
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He’s no oil painting!
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