Thomas Lynch is a libidinous aesthete and non-achieving art historian in disgrace for his sexual misdemeanours. There seems to be only one means of redemption – the opportunity to prove his life-long theory of the existence of an uncatalogued Madonna by the great Venetian Renaissance master, Giovanni Bellini. A multi-layered detective story wrapped in a caustic confession, The Bellini Madonna is a complex and ultimately tragic story that plays with art, poetry and history.
