Portrait Of A Conspiracy

Author : Donna Russo Morin
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000322053

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Portrait Of A Conspiracy by Donna Russo Morin Pdf

In 15th century Florence, five women and a legendary artist weave together a dangerous plot that could bring peace - or get them all killed. Seeking to wrest power from the Medici, members of the Pazzi family slay the beloved Giuliano. But Lorenzo de' Medici survives the attack and seeks revenge on everyone involved, plunging the city into murderous chaos. Bodies are dragged through the streets, and no one is safe. Five women steal away to a church to ply their craft in secret. Viviana, Fiammetta, Isabetta, Natasia and Mattea are painters, not allowed to be public with their skill but freed from the restrictions in their lives by their art. When a sixth member of their group, Lapaccia, goes missing and is rumored to have stolen a much sought-after painting before she vanished, the women must venture out into the dangerous streets to find their friend. They will have help from one of the most renowned painters of their era: the peaceful and kind Leonardo da Vinci. It is under his tutelage that they flourish as artists and with his access that they infiltrate some of the highest, most secretive places in Florence, unraveling one conspiracy as they build another in its place. Vibrant and absorbing, Portrait Of A Conspiracy is the first novel in Donna Russo Morin's Da Vinci's Disciples series.

Author : J. Madison Davis
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596877122

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The Van Gogh Conspiracy by J. Madison Davis Pdf

In *The Van Gogh Conspiracy,* the discovery of a "new" painting by Van Gogh hidden in the barn of a rural French farmhouse sets the art world spinning. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam authenticates the painting, and the poor French family in whose barn it was discovered stands to collect millions once the painting is auctioned. But a holocaust survivor living in New York claims the painting is actually his, and was stolen from him by the Nazis. He hires a team to help him prove that the "bill of sale" he has in Van Gogh’s handwriting is authentic. The international investigation leads to the discovery of another never-seen-before Van Gogh, and the revelation that someone working in the Van Gogh Museum has access to an entire horde of famous painting stolen by the Nazis during World War II—and has been secretly sending them to former Nazis around the world so that they can sell them at auction and make millions.

Author : Frida Beckman,Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000958065

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Theory Conspiracy by Frida Beckman,Jeffrey R. Di Leo Pdf

Theory Conspiracy provides a state-of-the-art collection that takes stage on the meeting and/or battlegrounds between conspiracy theory and theory-asconspiracy. By deliberately scrambling the syntax—conspiracy theory cum theory conspiracy—it seeks to open a set of reflections on the articulation between theory and conspiracy that addresses how conspiracy might rattle the sense of theory as such. In this sense, the volume also inevitably stumbles on the recent debates on postcritique. The suspicion that our ways of reading in the humanities have been far too suspicious, if not paranoid, has gained considerable attention in a humanities continuously questioned as superfluous at best and leftist and dangerous at worst. The chapters in this volume all approach this problematic from different angles. It features clear engaging writing by a set of contributors who have published extensively on questions of paranoia, conspiracy theory, and/or the state of theory today. This collection will appeal to readers interested in conspiracy theories, critical theory, and the future of humanities.

Author : Luiz Renato Martins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004346086

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The Conspiracy of Modern Art by Luiz Renato Martins Pdf

In The Conspiracy of Modern Art the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins draws on Marxist theory to invite us to see familiar pictures anew.

Author : Deron R. Hicks
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780358256212

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The Rembrandt Conspiracy by Deron R. Hicks Pdf

"Art and Camille team up once again to solve a large museum theft, using one of the biggest heists in history to help them solve the case"--

Author : Donna Russo Morin
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000442287

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The Competition by Donna Russo Morin Pdf

In a studiolo behind a church, six women gather to perform an act that is restorative, powerful, and illegal. They paint. Under the tutelage of Leonardo da Vinci, the six show talent and drive equal to that of any man, but in Renaissance Florence they must hide their skills, or risk the scorn of the city. A commission to paint a fresco in Santo Spirito is announced and Florence’s countless artists each seek the fame and glory this lucrative job will provide. Viviana, a noblewoman freed from a terrible marriage and now free to pursue her artistic passions in secret, sees a potential life-altering opportunity for herself and her fellow female artists. The women first speak to Lorenzo de’ Medici himself, and finally, submit a bid for the right to paint it. But the church will not stand for women painting, especially not in a house of worship. The city is not ready to consider women in positions of power, and in Florence, artists wield tremendous power. Even the women themselves are hesitant; the attention they bring upon themselves will disrupt their families, and put them in danger. All the while, Viviana grows closer to Sansone, her soldier lover, who is bringing her joy that she never knew with her deceased husband. Power and passion collide in Donna Russo Morin's 'The Competition', a sumptuous historical novel of shattering limitations, one brushstroke at a time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:49227208

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Burr Conspiracy by Anonim Pdf

Features the text of a January 22, 1807 message written by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) concerning the Burr Conspiracy, provided online as part of the Avalon Project of the Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. Discusses an alleged conspiracy by American political leader Aaron Burr (1756-1836) to create a new country in the southwestern United States.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081460852

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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Photography
ISBN : SRLF:D0001759547

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Photography by Anonim Pdf

Author : David McDermott,Robert Rosenblum,Peter McGough,Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Ostend, Belgium)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015041997191

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MacDermott & MacGough by David McDermott,Robert Rosenblum,Peter McGough,Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Ostend, Belgium) Pdf

This book represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of the art of McDermott and McGough ever published. Featuring 130 paintings and 25 photographs, the book's retrospective scope is an essential document on these artists.

Author : Joseph Masco,Lisa Wedeen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478027676

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Conspiracy/Theory by Joseph Masco,Lisa Wedeen Pdf

In an era of intensified information warfare, ranging from global disinformation campaigns to individual attention hacks, what are the compelling terms for political judgment? How are we to build the knowledge needed to recognize and address important forms of harm when critical information is either not to be trusted or kept hidden? Rather than approach conspiratorial narrative as an irrational response to an obviously decipherable reality, Conspiracy/Theory identifies important affinities between conspiracy theory and critical theory. It recognizes the motivation people have—in their capacities as experts, theorists, and ordinary citizens—to search for patterns in events, to uncover what is covert and attend to dimensions of life that might be hiding in plain sight. If it seems strange that so many find themselves living in incommensurable, disorienting realities, the multidisciplinary contributors to Conspiracy/Theory explore how and why that came to be. Across history and geography, contributors inquire into the affects and imaginaries of political mobilization, tracking counterrevolutionary projects while acknowledging collective futures that demand conspiratorial engagement. Contributors. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Hussein Ali Agrama, Kathleen Belew, Elizabeth Anne Davis, Joseph Dumit, Faith Hillis, Lochlann Jain, Demetra Kasimis, Susan Lepselter, Darryl Li, Louisa Lombard, Joseph Masco, Robert Meister, Timothy Melley, Rosalind C. Morris, George Shulman, Lisa Wedeen

Author : Daniel C. Hellinger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319981581

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Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump by Daniel C. Hellinger Pdf

This book focuses on the constant tension between democracy and conspiratorial behavior in the new global order. It addresses the prevalence of conspiracy theories in the phenomenon of Donald Trump and Trumpism, and the paranoid style of American politics that existed long before, first identified with Richard Hofstadter. Hellinger looks critically at both those who hold conspiracy theory beliefs and those who rush to dismiss them. Hellinger argues that we need to acknowledge that the exercise of power by elites is very often conspiratorial and invites both realistic and outlandish conspiracy theories. How we parse the realistic from the outlandish demands more attention than typically accorded in academia and journalism. Tensions between global hegemony and democratic legitimacy become visible in populist theories of conspiracy, both on the left and the right. He argues that we do not live in an age in which conspiracy theories are more profligate, but that we do live in an age in which they offer a more profound challenge to the constituted state than ever before.

Author : Victoria Emma Pagán
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292758810

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Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History by Victoria Emma Pagán Pdf

Conspiracy is a thread that runs throughout the tapestry of Roman history. From the earliest days of the Republic to the waning of the Empire, conspiracies and intrigues created shadow worlds that undermined the openness of Rome's representational government. To expose these dark corners and restore a sense of order and safety, Roman historians frequently wrote about famous conspiracies and about how their secret plots were detected and the perpetrators punished. These accounts reassured readers that the conspiracy was a rare exception that would not happen again—if everyone remained vigilant. In this first book-length treatment of conspiracy in Roman history, Victoria Pagán examines the narrative strategies that five prominent historians used to disclose events that had been deliberately shrouded in secrecy and silence. She compares how Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus constructed their accounts of the betrayed Catilinarian, Bacchanalian, and Pisonian conspiracies. Her analysis reveals how a historical account of a secret event depends upon the transmittal of sensitive information from a private setting to the public sphere—and why women and slaves often proved to be ideal transmitters of secrets. Pagán then turns to Josephus's and Appian's accounts of the assassinations of Caligula and Julius Caesar to explore how the two historians maintained suspense throughout their narratives, despite readers' prior knowledge of the outcomes.

Author : James E. Lewis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691191553

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The Burr Conspiracy by James E. Lewis Pdf

A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as examined through the lens of the Burr Conspiracy explores the political and cultural forces that influenced public perception and how in spite of vague and conflicting evidence, the former Vice President was arrested and tried for treason. --Publisher.

Author : J. Madison Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1596873485

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The Van Gogh Conspiracy by J. Madison Davis Pdf

The discovery of a 'new' Van Gogh painting hidden in a French farmhouse sets the art world spinning. A holocaust survivor claims the painting was stolen from him by the Nazis during World War II, and seeks to prove this. Thus an entire horde of famous paintings stolen during the war and the fight to save them begins.