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Exhilarating and informative...Mr. Costamagna is catholic in his enthusiasm and is open to the new. He tells delicious stories. -- Wall Street Journal An informative yet gripping and seductively gossipy memoir...Pulls back the curtain on connoisseurship at its most powerful. -- Financial Times Rollicking and erudite...Costamagna's candor and well-earned hubris make for an entertaining foray into the high-stakes art world. -- Publishers Weekly

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Philippe Costamagna is a specialist in sixteenth-century Italian painting and director of the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio, Corsica. He is the author of a book on the Florentine Renaissance painter Pontormo. Frank Wynne has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, and many more writers. He won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005 for his translation of Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World. Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.

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