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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Art historian Patricia Dolan, left alone with a stolen Vermeer in a remote Irish cottage by the sea, comes to regard the woman in the priceless painting as both a judge and confidant who helps Patricia sort out the complexities of her life.
2) Angelopolis
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A decade had passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline's wings and the Nephilim are scheming to construct their own paradise while being pursued by angel hunter Verlaine, but Evangeline causes him to have doubts.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A lushly drawn drama of Pablo Picasso's muses, the secret love affairs that inspired some of his greatest works, and the enduring influence of love and art Alana Olson always felt connected to Pablo Picasso. Sure, as a recently graduated art historian and aspiring writer in 1950s New York, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late Italian mother's particular fascination with the man that inspired Alana's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Vincent Scully is likely the best-known living art historian in the United States today. Until recently, he was still teaching at his alma mater, Yale University, where a wide variety of students were drawn to his undergraduate history of art and architecture courses. For years, Scully's deep engagement with the subject and his passionate presentation style have inspired his students to value these subjects. Many of them have gone on to become prominent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An art hoarder s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously he s being courted, infamously dour art hog Arthur Wordell isn t keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his beloved daughter, Nadia. Then, the night after the museum s f te, Arthur takes a twenty-story plunge from the window of his Times Square office. Nadia thinks it s no mere coincidence. Eccentric,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words But the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong. The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann -- no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics...
13) Still life
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"From the acclaimed author of Tin Man comes a captivating, lively new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster"--
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