The Portrait of the Lover by Maurizio Bettini

The Portrait of the Lover

Maurizio Bettini with Laura Gibbs (Translator)

353 pages missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction art classics literary reflective medium-paced
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There are a surprising number of stories from antiquity about people who fall in love with statues or paintings, and about lovers who use such visual representations as substitutes for an absent beloved. In a charmingly conversational, witty medit...

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