THE VANISHING MAN. IN PURSUIT OF VELAZQUEZ

The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velazquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book. (Colm Toibi n). In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. S uspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history. When Laura Cumm ing stum...[Read more]