Moving Through Time
Lisa N. Peters
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 110,000
Blending fact and fiction, the novel centers on a 1518 betrothal portrait by Raphael, depicting Lorenzo II de’ Medici (1492–1519). The book follows the painting in its context in the early sixteenth century, briefly in London (1860), and in New York (late twentieth century). The novel emphasizes how art’s deepest significance lies in the stories it generates. Please note: this book is only available in PDF format.
Blending fact and fiction, the novel centers on a 1518 betrothal portrait by Raphael, depicting Lorenzo II de’ Medici (1492–1519). The book follows the painting in its context in the early sixteenth century, briefly in London (1860), and in New York (late twentieth century). The novel emphasizes how art’s deepest significance lies in the stories it generates.
Lisa N. Peters, PhD, is an art historian, who has published extensively on American art from the colonial era to the present. Her book, Reframing Allegory in Work by American Women Painters of the Gilded Age (Six Case Studies) is forthcoming this summer from Routledge Press. Although she has dabbled in fiction for several years, this is her first novel.
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