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Portrait of an unknown

Meg Giggs is the adopted daughter of Thomas, a girl who feels that they belong to a world, the humanities, which is slowly disappearing in the fundamentalism of the religious wars of the first half of the 500. This juice dell'avvincente Vanora Bennett novel "Portrait of an Unknown Woman" I just stopped reading avidly. All the plot takes off from opportunity where the whole family Moro is found in large family home to pose for a portrait of German painter Hans Holbein, the event really existed, and witnessed by the framework, now housed in a British museum (one copy of this is in the same inner sleeve of the book, printing device is useful to frame the family that the symbolic function of the artist).
Hence obviously a fictional story, but embroidered on real events, full of pitfalls, of which only the end you will have the answers. The young and educated Meg, the protagonist and first-person narrator, finds himself at the center of conspiracies, secrets and powerful emotions that will make you doubt his own world, with a mental process after the other that make the reader see grow his character's eyes. A portrait of a woman of great grace, but simultaneously a strength and will of mind where one feels relieved at another level than typically misogynist imagery Humanism that has English, in which the woman of the time too often takes the form of a practical and Anne Boleyn calculator. All this without losing a bit of femininity or their role in society, while maintaining a remarkable clarity in the critical time, religion, family, until a short period in which the instincts take control over the licit ..
Beautiful views of the culture of the first '500 in a mixture of philosophy, symbolism, religion and customs. To act as Queen of art, with a pinch of vision techniques and stylistic and symbolic processes that lie behind a work such as Holbein, famous for his truly noble and royal portrait of England at the time of Henry VIII Tudor, here transfigured into a key figure in the story.
Recommended for those interested in art, who loves to spy on the lock "of large and small historical events but also those who never ceases to hope for happy ending. Do not be disappointed.