The Marriage Portrait

A portrait can capture beauty, but it cannot conceal fate. In a gilded court of secrets, her life is framed, and her fate is sealed.

In Renaissance Italy, young Lucrezia de’ Medici is married off to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, in a union meant to secure power and prestige. Torn from her home and thrust into a glittering yet suffocating court, she discovers that behind her husband’s charm lies danger. As the walls of the palace close in, Lucrezia’s only true freedom is found in her art yet even that cannot shield her from the growing shadow of betrayal and mortality.

Maggie O’Farrell paints Lucrezia’s life with exquisite detail, blending historical fact with poetic imagination. Every page breathes with tension, beauty, and dread as the young duchess struggles to define her voice in a world that seeks to silence her. The reader is drawn into a world where love is a performance, power is a weapon, and survival is an act of defiance.

The Marriage Portrait is both a sumptuous historical epic and a deeply intimate portrait of a young woman’s courage in the face of isolation and danger. O’Farrell captures the fragile interplay of art, power, and fate, leaving readers haunted long after the final page.

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