Текст книги "Isle of the Dead"

Автор книги: Alex Connor

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Epilogue

The Titian portrait of Angelico Vespucci was held by the UK police Art Squad at a secret location. It was kept with a number of another valuable retrieved works of art at a destination known to only a half-dozen select members of the police force. Hidden in a high-security building in the countryside, heavily alarmed and patrolled by dogs, impenetrable and secluded. Even the nearby villages had no idea of its whereabouts, or its purpose. Yet, on 4 November – on the anniversary of Larissa Vespucci’s murder, the Titian’s portrait of The Skin Hunter disappeared.

No one has ever recovered the painting of Angelico Vespucci.

But in Venice the rumour still holds.

When the portrait emerges, so will the man.

And they wait.

Bibliography

Titian – Ian G. Kennedy (Taschen)

Titian – Cecilia Gibellini (ed) (Rizzoli Art Classics)

Venetian Painting – John Steer (Thames and Hudson)

The World of Titian – Jay Williams (Time Life)

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting. Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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