Lavorgna, Julie (ed.) — Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Center for British Art, 2008. Softcover. Blue wraps with color illustration and pale blue lettering; 70 pp. with numerous bw and color illustrations and 2 gatefolds. The exhibition focuses on two versions of Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes, each a large history painting by expat American painter Benjamin West after he fell victim to a fraud by Thomas Provis and his daughter. The Provises purported to have the "Venetian Secret" used by painters of the High Renaissance that gave the famously luminous effects of light and color to their works. VG .