Artists in Fiction - The New York Times Tremendously entertaining and “unapologetic” in its artistic license, “Oil and Marble” will remind an older generation of the pleasures of Irving Stone’s art historical fiction, particularly
Oil and Marble Reviews — Stephanie Storey The New York Times Sunday Book Review “Tremendously entertaining and ‘unapologetic’ in its artistic license, Oil and Marble will remind an older generation of the pleasures of Irving Stone’s art historical fiction…
Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey - Goodreads Oil and Marble is the story of their nearly forgotten rivalry Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, and has entered with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo When a commission to carve the Duccio stone – a huge but damaged piece of marble – is offered by the city fathers, it is refused by Leonardo, but the destitute Michelangelo takes the job, hoping to prove his worth in Florence and to his disapproving father
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo - Bookclubs Called “tremendously entertaining” (The New York Times) Stephanie Storey’s brilliant bestselling debut, brings early 16th-century Florence, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo Buonarroti alive for art lovers and readers of historical fiction
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo - Blogger The New York Times reviewer calls Oil and Marble a "richly imagined tale," and indeed the novel is eminently readable Storey really knows her history, and she manipulates her knowledge gracefully so that it tells a cohesive story
Book review: Oil and Marble by Stephanie Storey | Christina . . . In Oil and Marble, Da Vinci’s beauty and arrogance hides his own insecurities He knows his allure, his power over people (by way of reasoning) and over art (by way of science), but he carries within him a kind of darkness that only comes to the fore in his most private moments