"The quiet reflection of this jewel of a novel is revelatory, redemptive and hypnotic until the last word."
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Kirkus Reviews
“An informative yet gripping and seductively gossipy memoir … pulls back the curtain on connoisseurship at its most powerful … Costamagna whirls his reader through a world where the forgotten masterpieces of provincial museums matter more than the known stars of grand institutions, and where a Raphael comes to light in the apartment of a Strasbourg taxi driver rather than the palace of a duchess.”
The Financial Times