Jack Pascoe ended a well-earned holiday prematurely to pay an unscheduled visit to his laboratory. There he discovered that two of his partners, Sally and Liam Jennings, had taken advantage of his absence to steal the lynchpin of his cloning system, just when he'd been finally ready to share it with the world. In the days that followed, Jack would be assailed on all sides, as so-called friends and lovers joined forces with a disgruntled police officer and a shadowy character known only as The Dutchman, all determined to destroy him. Treachery, as Jack was about to discover, is a slippery slope. Until he found someone he could trust, something to stop an inevitable slide into the abyss, it seemed he would lose not only his laboratory and his freedom, but maybe his life too.

A definitive overview of one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian Renaissance Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483-1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most widely and consistently admired across the centuries. He had an extraordinary and perhaps unrivaled capacity for self-reinvention-as he progressed from Umbria to Florence and Rome-and an ability to draw strength from the other great artists around him, seemingly growing in stature the more daunting the competition became. This insightful, impeccably researched, and comprehensive volume chronicles the progress of his career in all its richness and complexity. Sumptuous production values and generous illustrations go hand in hand with its rigorous and wide-ranging scholarship. The essays explore Raphael's paintings and drawings, his frescoes in the Vatican Stanze, his designs for tapestries, sculptures and prints, and his engagement with architecture. Detailed and authoritative catalogue entries examine many of Raphael's finest works. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London April 9-July 31, 2022

Luca Signorelli ist einer der auaergewohnlichsten Vertreter der italienischen Renaissancemalerei. Nach der Restaurierung seines Hauptwerks, des monumentalen Freskenzyklus in der Cappella di San Brizio im Dom von Orvieto, steht nun die lange ueberfallige Monographie seines Werkes an. Luca Signorelli (Cortona, um 1455 1523) gilt neben Pietro Vannucci, genannt Perugino, als Hauptvertreter der mittelitalienischen Renaissancemalerei. Schon in seiner Fruehzeit zeigte sich Signorelli stark beeinfluat von den monumentalen, hart umrissenen Gestalten des Piero della Francesca und den plastisch durchmodellierten Korpern der Pollaiuoli. Auf dieser Basis entwickelte er sein Hauptanliegen, die Seelenzustande und Affekte der Gestalten in unterschiedlichen Posen und Bewegungen einzufangen, wofuer er konzentrierte Lichtfuehrung, strenge Plastizitat, bisweilen kuehne Verkuerzungen und eine intensive Farbgebung einsetzte. Laurence B. Kanter gibt in dem einfuehrenden Text einen umfassenden Einblick in die kuenstlerische Entwicklung des Malers. In einem ausfuehrlichen uvrekatalog erfaat Tom Henry insgesamt 148 Werke mit ueberwiegend sakraler Thematik: neben den Fresken in Orvieto und Loreto, sowie seinem Anteil an den umfangreichen Wandbildzyklen in der Sixtinischen Kapelle und der Abtei Monteoliveto Maggiore auch umstrittene Zuschreibungen, Neuzuschreibungen oder gar wiederentdeckte Gemalde dieses auaergewohnlichen Meisters.