Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait is a vivid, sensory immersion into Renaissance Italy. It reimagines the life of Lucrezia de’ Medici, the young duchess immortalised in Robert Browning’s poem, "My Last Duchess." 🎨 The Premise
💡 Keep your phone nearby to look up the real "Portrait of Lucrezia de' Medici" while you read—it makes the descriptions even more haunting. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
O'Farrell writes with a "thick" style. You can smell the oil paints and feel the heavy velvet of the gowns. Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait is a vivid,