Banville and Trollope reimagine lives hidden in mystery portraits
Storytellers invent life histories for unknown subjects in National Portrait Gallery vaults
For more than half a century they have lain in a storeroom, unidentified and unseen by the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the National Portrait Gallery every year. But new life is being breathed into a collection of 16th and 17th century portraits of mystery figures thanks to a collaboration between the gallery and seven popular writers.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 16 March, 2010
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