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The Forgery of Venus : A Novel by Gruber, Michael, Michael Gruber is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsboroughartists whose works sell for millionsbut this style of painting is no longer popular, and he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. So Wilmot makes his living cranking out parodies for ads and magazine covers. A break comes when an art dealer obtains for him a commission to restore a Venetian palace fresco by the eighteenth-century master Tiepolo, for a disreputable Italian businessman. Once there, Wilmot discovers that it is not a restoration but a re-creation, indeed a forgery. At first skeptical of the job, he then throws himself into the creative challenge and does the job brilliantly. No one can tell the modern work from something done more than two hundred years ago. This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present who... From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Bestseller Gruber (_The Book of Air and Shadows_) probes the boundaries between sanity and madness in his outstanding sixth novel. Talented Chaz Wilmot, who makes a modest living as a
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- Author
- Gruber, Michael, Michael Gruber
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061632006
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, True Crime, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (210 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14