Looted Florentine Art in The Last Masterpiece by Laura Morelli

Join me as 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, including The Painter's Apprentice, The Giant, The Night Portrait, The Stolen Lady, and The Last Masterpiece, which we will be chatting about in this episode.
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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
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