Brilliant and beautiful, this contemplative art book offers a dual biography of artistic geniuses William Morris and Mariano Fortuny. Booker Prize-winning author A. S. Byatt reveals fascinating parallels between the (in many ways) disparate men. (She first notices a correlation between the two during a magical moment in Venice.) With dozens of full-color illustrations and black-and-white photos, Peacock and Vine brings the lives and works of these two extraordinary craftsmen into dazzling focus.