The Girl With the Botticelli Eyes
by Herbert Lieberman
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When a madman begins using the work of Botticelli as inspiration for his gruesome tableaus, a New York museum curator is the only man who can stop him Mike Manship is an up-and-coming curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. With a Botticelli retrospective fast approaching, Manship is poised to become the Met's director if he can secure three final drawings from Italy. Standing in his way is Ludovico Borghini, a neo-fascist count with a fanatical devotion to his Italian show more heritage and a deadly obsession with the Renaissance master's work. Between them are the three masterpieces and the alluring Isobel Cattaneo, a direct descendant of Botticelli's greatest muse, Simonetta. Borghini is determined to maintain possession of the drawings, and in the grips of his mania, he kidnaps Cattaneo, whom he suspects of aiding Manship. As the search for Cattaneo reaches a fever pitch, Manship discovers that Borghini is a much more twisted nemesis than he could ever have anticipated--one whose depravity reaches chilling depths. show lessTags
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Some art history, a quest to have a descendant to involved, a madman killer = some tense situations.
An art thriller.
Read in 2010.
An art thriller.
Read in 2010.
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- Canonical title
- The Girl With the Botticelli Eyes
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Mark Manship
- Important places
- Italy; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
- Dedication
- For Jean and Adrian Marcuse
- First words
- It was hot, so they left the doors open.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Having tendered his resignation leaving behind him a dozen mouths agape, he was then, for all intents and purposes, unemployed, a little nervous about the future perhaps, but marvelously free.
- Blurbers
- Harvey, James Neal; Daley, Robert
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- 132
- Popularity
- 244,620
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.04)
- Languages
- English, French, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 3
