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English
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Author
Series
Miniaturist novels volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
In this spellbinding stand-alone companion novel to The Miniaturist set in 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt, on her 18th birthday, which marks the day her mother died, receives a parcel containing a miniature figure of her secret lover, which changes her fate forever.
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mercedes Moreno is dealing with a lot, her grandmother is in a coma, she's suffering from artist's block, and she is too afraid to tell her best friend that she is in love with her, but art starts to show up in her life in unexpected ways.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Returning home to care for her sick mother, Juliet Clark, hiding that she is pregnant and that her ex isn't the father, intends on a short stay until a feud between her mother and a neighbor reveals that she isn't the only one keeping a secret.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When struggling journalist Sophie Cass sets out to discover the dark secrets of celebrated painter Gabriel Lambert, her questions lead her back to 1940 where a group of international rescue workers, refugee intellectuals, and artists work to escape France.
11) The golden hour
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After fleeing to a remote Maine island to act as caretaker of a friends property, Wyn Davies discovers a mysterious time capsule in the basement that ultimately helps her come to grips with a crime committed against her 20 years prior.
13) Painting time
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on craftmanship during her training at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels, Paula embarks on an international career before she is assigned the monumental task of creating a reproduction of a famous paleolithic art cave.
Author
Series
Society of sirens volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When she must wed due to a stipulation in her inheritance, Cornelia, an activist painter of radicals and harlots who wants to fund the cause of women’s rights, is forced to reveal a secret—she’s already wed to a man she hasn’t seen for 20 years.
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in New Mexico, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's philandering husband; and Maria's design and building of a remarkable adobe house and studio for the artist...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Meanwhile,...
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