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This treatise on Renaissance beauty highlights similarities to contemporary beauty standards. There’s appeal for casual readers, but the real value is for academics.
Fremantle’s characterizations and descriptions of life in 17th-century Rome are word paintings as vivid as Artemisia’s, and the gripping, well-constructed plot will captivate historical-fiction and suspense readers from the first page.
With authoritative narrative in each essay, this book won’t make readers love these scoundrels of U.S. history, but they might just learn something new and find some humanity in them.
Uneven pacing and several glaring inconsistencies impede some of the suspense, but fans of plot twists and isolated settings will find something to enjoy. Recommended for larger public libraries.