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Author
Series
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
28 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Los miembros de la milicia est?n nerviosos porque van a ser retratados en un cuadro por Rembrandt, el pintor m?s talentoso y m?s famoso del pa?s. ¿Qui?n estar? adelante en el cuadro? ¿El m?s valiente, el m?s listo o el m?s divertido? Ana, la ni?a del vestido dorado, descubrir? que para el gran maestro lo importante es aquello que no se ve a simple vista."--
Author
Publisher
Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist?s model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, actress, icon?her beauty paved the way for a life of glamour, passion, and ultimately tragedy. She dated the millionaires of the fashionable Newport colony, became the first American movie star ever to appear naked in a...
5) Sirens
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. with 1 b&w sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of his beautiful models scandalize the nation. Intent on delivering salvation, the repressed reverend and his wife instead are lead into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts and sensuous surroundings.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 517 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
When the painter Botticelli doesn't pay Luciana Vetra for her work as one of his models, she steals an unfinished painting. After people around her start dying--murdered by someone who wants the painting and its secrets back--Luciana goes on the run, looking for answers.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A tale inspired by the life of the woman depicted in Édouard Manet's "Olympia" follows the life of a passionate girl in mid-nineteenth-century Paris who after accepting dinner from a handsome stranger is indoctrinated into cultural society.
Author
Description
Christina Olson the only daughter in a family of sons, is tied to her home by health and circumstance, and seems destined fro a small life. Instead wher becomes Andrew Wyeth's first great inspiration, and the subject of one of the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, Christina's World.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men...
12) The last nude
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka....
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