Join me as I chat with Laura Morelli, author of six novels listed on Art In FIction: The Gondola Maker in the Other category, and five novels in the Visual Arts category: The Painter's Apprentice, The Giant, The Night Portrait, The Stolen Lady, and The Last Masterpiece, which we will be discussing in this episode.
View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/K1Zru2kCdtQ
- Genesis for The Last Masterpiece
- A tale of two heroines--one American and one Austrian on opposite sides of the war
- Fascination with how different stories were constructed around a series of historical events related to works of art
- Why Florence? Its role as a mecca for art historians and the WWII experience
- How the blowing up of Florence's bridges in WWII forms the lynchpin in the novel
- The remains of medieval houses in Florence--what we can still see today
- How Laura discovered a real person very much like her fictional Ava, a German photographer named Hilda Lotz Bauer
- The experiences of a WAC in Italy in WWII and the role they played in the war effort
- Shades of grey in how art was handled both by the Allied and the Axis sides in WWII
- Media and misinformation in WWII
- What is the appeal of Art In Fiction? Laura answers!
- Reading from The Last Masterpiece
- One thing Laura learned from writing her novels that she didn't know before
Press Play now & be sure to check out Laura Morelli's novels on Art In Fiction: https://www.artinfiction.com/novels?q=laura+morelli
Laura Morelli's website: https://lauramorelli.com/
Music Credit
Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
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