Send us a textPlease visit Laura Morelli's website to learn more.Show Notes: 2:20 Travels in Europe began interest in art history3:00 academia to historical fiction4:20 Dual timelines of The Night Portrait and The Stolen Lady5:45 Characters in The Night Portrait set around da Vinci’s Lady With an Ermine in Italian Renaissance and its theft in Nazi-Occupied Poland7:30 The Stolen Lady set around creation of Mona Lisa and efforts to save it during WWII8:40 Conspiracies around Mona Lisa9:40 16th and 17th Century copies of Mona Lisa10:35 Theft of Mona Lisa in 1911 by Italian contractor who thought it had been stolen from Italy11:45 Da Vinci’s work in Court of France; how Mona Lisa came to be in French Royal Collection and then Louvre13:00 Use of protagonist Bellina’s agency as servant15:45 Bonfire of the Vanities after Medici expelled from Florence, Italy17:40 The Gondola Maker - 16th Century Venice18:45 Gondola burning as a Venetian act of justice to punish gondolier20:20 Characters in The Night Portrait20:54 Cecilia Gallerani, subject of Lady with an Ermine22:35 German art conservator Edith conscripted into looting 23:30 Scale of art looting during World War II 24:30 Hans Frank who served as Nazi General Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland and was known as the Butcher of Poland25:50 Value of art versus value of life during war26:45 Review of The Night Portrait compared character of Edith with character of Hannah in The Woman Who Heard Color by Kelly Jones 27:45 Complications of character with Edith28:40 Outlining 31:20 Advice for historical fiction authors32:05 Empowerment of writers32:35 Read with eye of craftsperson to see skeleton of book33:10 Foreshadowing in first chapters that will come to fruition later34:00 recommendations of Tracy Chevalier and Geraldine Brooks34:18 Author recommendation of Ken Follett, including his book The Pillars of the Earth about construction of a cathedral in Medieval England35:20 Author recommendations of Umberto Eco; Maggie O’Farrell, including Hamnet; and Karen Maitland35:50 LauraMorelli.com and Art History Academy under ‘Learn’ tab37:40 Virtual visits to Italian museums and archeological sites39:00 Using art as research resource 39:20 Books on daily life in era recommended as an aid for sensory details40:25 Recommendations - craft of writing42:35 Survivor bias 44:15 Da Vinci’s missing/destroyed hydraulic and engineering projects45:25 Raphael’s missing Portrait of a Youth47:30 Facilitating historical justice through books like The Night Portrait48:50 Upcoming book on the evacuation of the Uffizi Gallery50:20 Uffizi book inspired by ways art evacuated/managed in Italy than elsewhere during WWII 52:35 Historical justice theme in upcoming Uffizi bookPlease share your comments and/or questions at [email protected] by Toulme.To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected]. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]

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