{"id":1593,"date":"2009-12-07T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2009-12-07T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T02:02:57","slug":"master-of-shadows-a-telegraph-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Master of Shadows: A Telegraph Book of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/rubens_the_triumph_of_victory_ca_1614.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/rubens_the_triumph_of_victory_ca_1614.jpg\" alt=\"rubens_the_triumph_of_victory_ca_1614\" title=\"rubens_the_triumph_of_victory_ca_1614\" width=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The distinguished British historian Michael Burleigh has named <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?page_id=770\">Master of Shadows<\/a> a Book of the Year in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/6710158\/Books-of-the-Year.html\">Telegraph<\/a>. He writes: <\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Lamster\u2019s Master of Shadows (Doubleday) is a fascinating study of the diplomatic missions of Peter Paul Rubens, a dual role for artists we are mercifully spared in the case of our treasures Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Whatever your thoughts about Hirst and Emin, that&#8217;s a nice encomium. The book is also recommended on the Holiday Shopping Guide at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fodors.com\/news\/story_3755.html\">Fodor&#8217;s Travel Blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distinguished British historian Michael Burleigh has named Master of Shadows a Book of the Year in the Telegraph. He writes: Mark Lamster\u2019s Master of Shadows (Doubleday) is a fascinating study of the diplomatic missions of Peter Paul Rubens, a dual role for artists we are mercifully spared in the case of our treasures Damien &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Master of Shadows: A Telegraph Book of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}