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ARMEL, ALIETTE. Love, the Painter's Wife & the Queen of Sheba. Toby. Jul. 2004. c.173p. tr. from French by Alison Anderson. ISBN 1-59264-053-2. $19.95. F
Armel, a French critic and historian, blends fact and fancy in this spellbinding feminist first novel about Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca's renowned frescoes in the chapel of Arezzo. As she tells it, Piero's wife, Silvia, becomes unhappy when her spouse is summoned for a papal commission. Fearful that the religious court will have a negative impact on Piero's creativity, she concocts a strategy to keep him nearby. In daily installments, she recounts the story of Queen …