Auteur: Dr Ross King

‘Compelling… fascinating’ Spectator’Abounding with excellent little stories’ Financial Times This is the story of one of the most magnificent achievements of the Italian Renaissance, and the archit …

By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi’s Dome.After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 17 …

‘A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book’ WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings – the dazzling handi …

Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War, and in …

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxin …