Adrien Goetz was born in 1966 in Caen. PhD in Art History, he worked at various capacities in the field of media art: L'Oeil, Fine Arts Magazine... His novels are marked by artistic adventure: La Dormeuse de Naples(2004, Prix des Deux Magots and Roger Nimier) tells the imaginary adventures of an authentic lost masterpiece by Ingres in 1815, while Une Petite légende dorée (2005) seeks to reconstruct a picture of Siena Renaissance.