Anna Bottinelli is an altruistic sleuth—an art detective who tracks down Nazi-stolen works, proving their provenance before re-uniting them with their rightful owners. She also happens to look like she stepped out of a fashion advertisement and speaks with a thick Italian accent, undercut with the subtlest of Texas twangs.
Raised in Florence, Bottinelli studied art history in both Rome and London before beginning her career as the lead Italian researcher for Robert M. Edsel, an oilman turned author who went on to write The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, which went on to become a film. He also married Bottinelli. (More on that in a bit.)
