The Last Masterpiece

The Last Masterpiece A Novel of World War II Italy ★★★★★ 378 reviews In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections. Inspired by the incredible true story of the looted Florentine art collections during World War II, this historical novel by USA Today bestselling author and art historian Laura Morelli plunges readers into the heart of war-torn Italy. In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden inside the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art Gallery. When both women are called to Italy to contribute to the war effort, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the world’s greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art collections in her hands. But as Italy turns from ally to enemy an