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Looted Florentine Art in The Last Masterpiece by Laura Morelli
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Join me as chat with Laura Morelli, author of six novels listed on Art In FIction: The Gondola Maker in the Other category, and five novels in the Visual Arts category, including The Painter's Apprentice, The Giant, The Night Portrait, The Stolen Lady, and The Last Masterpiece, that we will be chatting about in this episode.
View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/K1Zru2kCdtQ
- Genesis for The Last Masterpiece
- A tale of two heroines--one American and one Austrian on opposite sides of the war
- Fascination with how different stories were constructed around a series of historical events related to works of art
- Why Florence? Its role as a mecca for art historians and the WWII experience
- How the blowing up of Florence's bridges in WWII forms the lynchpin in the novel
- The remains of medieval houses in Florence--what we can still see today
- How Laura discovered a real person very much like her fictional Ava, a German photographer named Hilda Lotz Bauer
- The experiences of a WAC in Italy in WWII and the role they played in the war effort
- Shades of grey in how art was handled both by the Allied and the Axis sides in WWII
- Media and misinformation in WWII
- What is the appeal of Art In Fiction? Laura answers!
- Reading from The Last Masterpiece
- One thing Laura learned from writing her novels that she didn't know before
Press Play now & be sure to check out Laura Morelli's novels on Art In Fiction: https://www.artinfiction.com/novels?q=laura+morelli
Laura Morelli's website: https://lauramorelli.com/
Music Credit
Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
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