Tríptico da Salvação

Hans Kunsperger has spent years copying documents for an aged and honoured jurist, envying the comforts of his life. Yet it is not only those comforts that lead him to do away with the old man by degrees. What he truly covets is his employer's long-held plan to order a three-panelled altarpiece, showing the Crucifixion, the Deposition and the Resurrection, for the church of his baptism. The commission brings Kunsperger to the workshop of Lucas Cranach, a celebrated painter close to the divisive Martin Luther, where he meets Cranach's two boys; it is one of them who will prove crucial to finishing a work that many will not live to see.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

197 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 16th century

First published

2019 by Dom Quixote

Author's age

78 when first published

ISBN

9789722067409 (original)