Catalog Search Results
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
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.
6) The best man
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget"--
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
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
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.
11) 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....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her motherin the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman--already a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of Arc--has a baby out of wedlock with her Italian lover, film director Roberto Rossellini. Previously held...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title