From the acclaimed author of The King’s Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
An exploration of the volatile years of England’s Tudor dynasty (1485–1603), using the art of the era – both images and objects – to investigate every facet of a period that continues to exert a remarkable allure.
A spellbinding work of history that uncovers the inner lives and work of Maria of Modena and her ‘graces’, the extraordinary women who practiced art, poetry and politics within the misogyny of the Restoration court.
