approaching difficult subject matter directly with comic book user-friendliness

overlooking the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts

exhilarating prose style

Luke Syson and Dora Thornton

Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican wedding gifts approaching difficult subject matter directlyMaurizio De Luca Translated by Jason Cardone Engagingly written and profusely illustrated, this book offers readers a close up "view from the scaffolding" of some of the greatest Renaissance wall paintings at the Vatican. Beginning in the late 1400s, the greatest artists of Renaissance Italy were summoned to Rome, where they decorated the walls and ceilings of the Vatican. Expert restorer Maurizio De Luca spent his forty year career in the Vatican