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The Forgery of Venus

by Michael Gruber

3.65 · rating details · 898 ratings · 258 reviews

An artist born outside his time, Chaz Wilmot can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough--and he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. His unique abilities attract the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present, and soon Wilmot is working with a fervor he hasn't felt in years. But his creative burst is accompanied by

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Published March 1st 2009 by William Morrow & Company (first published 2008)

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Sep 18, 2008

Armand rated it

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Recommends it for: art lovers, Europe lovers, people who read books to think deep thoughts.

Shelves: genre-mod-lit-fic, read-2008, source-library

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concept: Charles Wilmot Jr. gifted painter with serious personality flaws and gift for self- destruction gets involved in a complicated scenario during which he both begins to go mad, imagining himself to be the famous painter Velasquez and also being hired/ sucked-in by a sophisticated criminal master forger (Werner Krebs).

- The beginning rolls along a little too quickly and we get an abbreviated bio on Wilmot with few scenes and most dialogu...more

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Jul 12, 2008

Nadine rated it

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Recommends it for: readers who prefer a literary style

Shelves: mysteries

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Feb 05, 2009

Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

Although critics still make the inevitable and easy comparisons to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, any time a book comes out in the burgeoning genre of the "literary thriller," Gruber��so critics might argue with good cause��delivers a more compelling (or, at the least, a more imaginative) story. With The Forgery of Venus, Gruber hits his stride, combining psychological intrigue with an expert's knowledge of art and art history (Gruber's fascination with the subject dates back to his ea

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Jul 07, 2008

Michelle rated it

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Oh how I love Michael Gruber.

Here's a man who never writes the same book twice. The first of his I read was The Witch's Boy, a modern fairy tale.

Then I read Tropic of Night, which has mainly to do with voodoo in Miami (I'm leaving out a lot of important details, but it was excellent).

And then I moved on to The Book of Air and Shadows, which is a "literary thriller," meaning that it's a thriller that centers around books, one of my very favorite genr...more

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Feb 29, 2008

Eileen Phillips rated it

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Recommends it for: people who love art forgery as much as i do

Shelves: fiction-literature

I cannot even describe how much I love art forgery. I don't know why. I don't know what it is, but art forgery fascinates me. Which is weird because unoriginality, copycatting, clones of society, all that crap pisses me off. But there's just something about...the lengths people go to, the imitation of something so great that someone would rather try to recreate it than even bother to attempt to create something better of their own, the...homage of it. It just excites my emotions. Anyway! This bo...more

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Jan 26, 2009

Rosie rated it

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I really like the way Gruber writes. I like his use of language, his rhythms, his pacing, his words. His characters live, too. Here, they're similar to the characters in his first book, but that's fine, since they're fun. In this book, he has some really lovely moments where character changes occurr subtly and effectively. He writes about art-related topics with sensitivity. His endings are a little over the top for me...his writing is good enough that he doesn't need all the fuss at the end. Bu...more

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Apr 10, 2011

Lisa rated it

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Shelves: 2011-reading-list, general-fiction

An induced tale that follows an artist as he forges a great work of art, time travels into the life of a great master, hallucinates an entirely different life, or spirals directly into madness.

Chaz has spent most of his life comparing himself to artists; often his father, but other times the great masters that his work so often seems to imitate. After taking an experimental drug, he finds himself painting as Velazquez, living the life of a long dead painter and bringing his style an...more

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Dec 31, 2010

Peregrine 12 added it · review of another edition

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I just wanted a compelling story, but I got halfway through this one and had to give up. When the mental effort required of a story is greater than the pleasure extracted from reading it, then I have to throw in the towel.

Was the plot original? Yes. Was the main character real, likable, human? Yes. Did you care about the characters? Yes again, but... well, the stories-within-stories-within-stories required a lot of effort and ultimately became a bit wearing. I really just wanted to kn...more

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Jul 17, 2010

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Shelves: john, fiction, staff-picks-blog, mysteries

I really like Michael Gruber‘s literate thrillers, which are often spiced with a touch of the supernatural. While not his best, Forgery of Venus has plenty to offer. Chaz Wilmot is a supremely gifted painter, who, repelled by the easy success of his father, described as a latter day Norman Rockwell, has turned his back on the lucrative aspects of the art biz, resulting in poverty and damaged personal relationships. His ex owns a gallery, for instance, and can’t understand why he won’t cash in. N...more

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Jun 28, 2010

Scot rated it

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I’ve read a few different books on art forgery in the last few years, most memorably Dolnick’s The Forger’s Spell. I enjoy combining learning more about art and art history with how high stakes crimes in this area have operated in the past, and how they (I assume) continue to endure in the present. I know that technology regularly offers advancements in spotting the fakes, but I’d suspect that it also regularly offers criminal minds – particularly the more creative ones – ways to circumvent th...moreI’ve read a few different books on art forgery in the last few years, most memorably Dolnick’s The Forger’s Spell. I enjoy combining learning more about art and art history with how high stakes crimes in this area have operated in the past, and how they (I assume) continue to endure in the present. I know that technology regularly offers advancements in spotting the fakes, but I’d suspect that it also regularly offers criminal minds – particularly the more creative ones – ways to circumvent those advances as well.

This is a novel, so I can’t assume the criminal master techniques described and discussed here are truly practiced in the real world, but they do make for a good read. The author clearly loves art and did well in art history at university. He expects that with a few references and allusions any reader will recall which Old Master was famous for which technique or stylistic innovation, and he assumes a shared reverential devotion to artistic achievements in the West from the Renaissance forward. If these requirements concern or bore you in the slightest, forego reading this novel.

If, however, you don’t mind mulling over the personal struggles of an artist with great natural talent who feels he has replicated his father’s descent into mediocrity in the service of corporate demands, if you can handle psychological reflections on how our early relationships with parents can mold and scar us for life, and if you’re open enough to accept that in a hallucinatory drug state, it might be possible to cross over and truly experience the life of a person in another time and place as if you were that person (though it could well throw your own sense of identity and reality into jeopardy)—well, then, this is a novel for you, especially if you hold a special place in your heart for the work of Velasquez.

This is the first book by Gruber I have read, and I picked it up on a fluke—no one recommended it, I had never heard of it, it was just in the right place at the right time when I reached for something to read. However, the author makes enough of an impact that I shall remember his name and probably check out some other work of his in the future.
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May 17, 2009

Eva Mitnick rated it

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This could almost be considered a fantasy - or maybe it really is a bona fide fantasy. After all, an immensely talented artist (who refuses to truckle to the masses or pander to art critics or basically do anything but be true to himself - but he doesn't know who he is) keeps having extremely realistic fantasies that he is Velasquez (the famous Spanish painter of yore), to the point that he knows details of V.'s life that he couldn't possibly know unless he really was experiencing some kind of ...more

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Nov 11, 2008

Steve rated it

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I started recommending this book before I had even finished it. The main character is an artist who takes a roller coaster emotional and psychological ride to the very end of the book. Gruber makes you wonder as the story progresses whether his artist is someone born outside of their time or living in a world of his own creation. Interesting mix of stories from different times historically and action to build a plot. I will read some of Gruber’s previous books now.

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Oct 18, 2010

Stacey rated it

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This was a book I found abandoned on the bargain shelf at Barnes & Noble, and the title caught my eye because I only recently read The Art Forger's Handbook by renowned 20th-century art forger Eric Hebborn. (Side note: Mr. Hebborn makes a "guest appearance" in Venus.) Why the bargain shelf? Is it because people who are not painters don't get excited about art forgery books? Well it was certainly misplaced, and I was indeed fortunate to rescue it from its bargain-shelf fate. This book i...more

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Apr 03, 2009

Sharlene rated it

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A knock off of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring -- the story is fact and fiction woven around a famous painting. Most of the story is told via a recording on a CD--a first person account of an artist who travels through time and space while under the influence of a drug. In reality--that portion of the book fills more than 7 discs in the audio format. An interesting premise for a story, but I was rather put off by this book. I like a book that enlightens me in some area--I learn a...more

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Jan 15, 2012

Julie rated it

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Shelves: 2011, author-male, arts-architecture, geo_europe, mystery, pub_post-1945, thriller, type_fiction

Dig your old copy of "The History of European Art" from freshman year out of the attic and look up all the art references as you make your way through this literary/timetravel/mystery novel. As with the other novel I have read by Gruber, The Book of Air and Shadows, this book has a nice blend of scholarship and thrills. My favorite parts were definitely the references to Goya, Velazquez, Bosch and other Spanish painters. As a young college student I spent dozens of hours standing in fr...more

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Apr 28, 2011

Edward rated it

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A brilliant book, or rather a book with a brilliant concept that sometimes lagged in the narrative details of the story surrounding it, but necessary in a novel that tells a story. Otherwise, well, you’d have an extended historical art study, and who would want to read that except for a few scholars? What was really missing, though, was a full page illustration of Velazquaz' THE ROKEBY VENUS, as well as some other famous nude paintings that are mentioned in the novel. Granted, ...more
A brilliant book, or rather a book with a brilliant concept that sometimes lagged in the narrative details of the story surrounding it, but necessary in a novel that tells a story. Otherwise, well, you’d have an extended historical art study, and who would want to read that except for a few scholars? What was really missing, though, was a full page illustration of Velazquaz' THE ROKEBY VENUS, as well as some other famous nude paintings that are mentioned in the novel. Granted, there is a muddy picture on the cover, but it hardly does Velazquaz' great painting justice. As the entire book centers around a forgery of this painting and goes into depth about the details of its details, an illustration in front of the reader would have made the story more immediate. the reader then could stop at any time flip some pages, and stare at the painting.
The story is a convoluted one about a very talented painter, Chaz Wilmot, who is essentially wasting his time doing commercial art work in contemporary New York City. His story is contained within a framework narrative in which he has given a long tape of his adventures to a college classmate he has not seen in many years. Why does he give him the tape, then? Apparently, he wants someone who is not closely connected with his life to hear of his fantastic experiences. Does the narrator believe the story that Chaz tells him.? At first, he is skeptical, but at the end of the book, he meets Chaz again, and now he seems to believe him, ". . .I stood for a moment in front of the greatest painting in the world, THE MAIDS OF HONOR by Velazquaz, and thought about what it would be like to be him, really be him, and I couldn't deal with it, and I left and reentered the long gray sanity of my life."
Chaz's life is fantastic because his talent is recognized by a mysterious Werner Krebs, whose father was a Nazi, a very knowledgeable and wily European art dealer. Krebs manages to enlist Chaz in creating a forgery of the 17th century Velazquaz’ ROKEBY VENUS, one so good that no one is able to recognize it as a fake. Obviously, there is a lot of money to be made in such an enterprise. Chaz is drawn in by a combination of the appeal of money and by the use of drugs which create in him a sensation of actually being Valazquaz, living in the Spanish royal court of the early 1600's.
The drugs are so powerful that Chaz undergoes psychotic symptons of not knowing who he is. Is his identity that of Velazquaz or is it of Chaz Wilmot, a struggling contemporary painter who is divorced with two children to support?
At the heart of the novel, are questions about how we know reality. It is the "question of questions - how does your brain work?" The ROKEBY VENUS itself poses the same question, one of mirrors and reflections. A nude woman, seen from the rear, is lying on a couch staring into a mirror in which is reflected a very blurry image, hard to even tell if it is a man or woman. Near her is a Cupid. Does she have a sensuous love with an objective reality, or does the mirror reflect only her own interior fantasies?
Chaz has some of the same concerns - he is tired of the contemporary art scene, driven by fads and patrons with too much money to spend. It is all show and pretense. He comments, "Whenever I think about doing another gallery show, it makes me sick." He recalls that one of the old masters, Vermeer, had the same problem, resenting the commercial value placed on his art, so much so that sometimes he tried to buy back his own paintings so that it would not be "soiled" by commerce.
What does he want to do, then? He wants to capture the "vibrating moment" when everything is loaded with meaning; he wants to experience "life" through the medium of pure art, without the blurring effects of everyday concerns of worry and regret. He feels his life like Beckett's Krapp (who in KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, recounts his life as if it were just a recording, shallow, overly influenced by the media, and cut off from the sources of REAL life). Krebs gives him the opportunity to do this, to become alive in another time period (never mind that this experience is largely drug-induced), and to become Velazquaz in all of his creative genius. Technically, a forgery, yes, but his experience could not be more real.
In the end, though, he is drawn back to the reality of his two children, one who is sick and needs him. He turns his back on Krebs and goes back to a more mundane existence, realizing, though, that occasionally he produces a painting that is really good, "something we all recognize as true, what my sister [a Catholic nun - a nod to the close alliance between art and religion] calls grace." But we cannot live constantly in this hyper-reality of “art” or” grace”
Back to my original comment - over 300 pages to work all of this out, and sometimes I felt bogged down with all of the details of life in Madrid and Rome, both 21st and 17th century. But it could be my shortcoming – I, like Chaz, just wanted hyper-reality all the time.

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Feb 09, 2012

Linda rated it

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Shelves: mystery-crime

The Forgery of Venus tells the story, in his own words, of artist Chaz Wilmot, one of the greatest talents of his (our) time. The reasons no one knows it is that he refuses to sell out to the shallow demands of the current art world. Chaz wants to paint like Vermeer, Caravaggio, or, in this case, Velasquez. A pair of art dealers, recognizing this, lure him into creating a forgery, one so good that no one will believe it's not a 17th original. Chaz justifies his choice because of his need to rais...more

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Dec 12, 2011

Carolyn rated it

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Shelves: library-books

Gruber is a great pleasure to read because of his intelligence and erudition. My only regret is that there remains only one of his books (The Good Son) that I haven't read yet since I discovered him a couple of months ago.

This one is hard to categorize. Not exactly literary fiction, not exactly fantasy, not exactly a thriller, although it has elements of all of these genres. Gruber is particularly interested in the nature of consciousness, especially altered states induced by shamani...more

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Mar 23, 2011

David rated it

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Shelves: mainstream-fiction

Not my kind of protagonist, on the surface -- a neurotic, self-destructive New Yorker with a tremendous artistic gift who can't seem to manage to be happy. From this beginning, though, Gruber spins a fantastic tale in which Wilmot, the painter, has increasingly long and vivid dreams that he is, in fact, 17th century master painter Diego Velasquez. Like the movie A Beautiful Mind, it quickly becomes unclear what reality is the real one, especially as Velasquez is having dreams of contemporary l...more

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Jul 10, 2010

Paul added it · review of another edition

This is my first exposure to Michael Gruber and what a treat! An artist of immense talent spends his time painting magazine covers for a few thousand dollar rather that painting what he likes and does well. His former wife, a gallery owner, knows this better than anyone else. The artist signs up for the test of an experimental drug that is known to release artistic talent. Our hero is taken back to Spain and Italy in the 17th century and slowly learns that he is living the life of the artist Va...more

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May 01, 2009

Ben Babcock rated it

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Shelves: from-library, 2009-read, historical-fiction, 2009-worst10

Although it contains a promising theme, The Forgery of Venus lacks a compelling story. Its characters are largely shallow and uninteresting; its plot is overly-complicated; the pacing suffers from an overabundance of exposition. While I'm sure Gruber had the best of intentions, his poor technical execution leaves much to be desired. Ultimately, I found The Forgery of Venus unsatisfactory.

For reasons that later become clear (unreliable narrator), Gruber chooses to wrap the story in...moreAlthough it contains a promising theme, The Forgery of Venus lacks a compelling story. Its characters are largely shallow and uninteresting; its plot is overly-complicated; the pacing suffers from an overabundance of exposition. While I'm sure Gruber had the best of intentions, his poor technical execution leaves much to be desired. Ultimately, I found The Forgery of Venus unsatisfactory.

For reasons that later become clear (unreliable narrator), Gruber chooses to wrap the story in a frame narrative told from the point of view of the protagonist's former college buddy. The scenario goes as follows: the protagonist, Chaz Wilmot, has recorded his narrative on a CD, which he then hands to the frame narrator at a party celebrating the sale of a 17th century painting that Wilmot may or may not have painted. For the first few chapters, Gruber dazzles us with exposition, in which our cardboard characters get shellacked with various traumas and emotional baggage--daddy issues, mommy issues, commitment issues, etc.--and the structure works! But then the story proper begins, and suddenly it doesn't sound like Chaz is dictating his story anymore. However, the "suspension of disbelief" sign has turned on, and I've fastened my seat belt, so apparently I'm going along for the ride.

And this is an important point: why is it necessary to justify a story told from the first-person perspective. If it isn't a frame narrative, it's a weak Call-Me-Ishmael chapter. In the specific case of The Forgery of Venus, I have the misfortune in that the only character I dislike more than Chaz Wilmot is the frame narrator. While Gruber can justify Chaz's painful expository chapters as consistent with the structure of the narrative, the frame narrator has no such crutch upon which to lean: the exposition in the introduction is anaemic and unnecessary. Just to set the record straight, most Canadians don't say "eh" at the end of their sentences; while I'm sure there are some who do, the very idea that you mentioned the stereotype offended me. The frame narrator's explanation of why Chaz is talking to him is weak at best: he suddenly switched his major from acting to pre-law because of a painting Chaz did while he was in costume? And somewhere along the way he picked up enough art history to appreciate the significance of Chaz's adventure from a scholarly perspective?

The unbelievable plot, in addition to the unbelievable, paper-thin characters, is what ruined this book for me. The themes that Gruber attempts to evince are worthy. The book improves toward the end, so I'm glad I persevered, and I understand Gruber's message about the mutability of our reality. Unfortunately, any redeeming aspects of The Forgery of Venus are crushed by its poor plotting and weak writing. It's, in some ways, an anti-The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown's research was weak, but as a writer he managed to create a compelling story. Conversely, Gruber's research and themes are strong, but the story lacks life and substance. The number of acceptable scenarios in which one can say, "Dad had a little problem" are few. I think that's the point where I gave up on the book's quality and resolved merely to finish it so I could give it a complete (notice I didn't say "fair") review.

I eked very little enjoyment from The Forgery of Venus. As romantic and attractive as the art forgery scene may seem, Gruber manages to quash that feeling in his drug-induced insanity plot. Had I any sympathy for the protagonist after the first few chapters (which I didn't), in which he whines about how unfortunate his life has been, it would have slowly bled out of me while I watched Chaz firmly refuse to take any responsibility for his own life. He's a passive protagonist.

The Forgery of Venus is a dead-on-arrival story burdened by its author's prose. I feel sorry for it, but not for its characters. I look forward to cleansing my reading palate with something more tasty next.(less)

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Apr 01, 2009

Julie rated it

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Recommended to Julie by: Seattle Times

While I enjoyed the idea of this book, I didn't love love love the book itself. The premise is this painter isn't realizing his true potential (and isn't making any money), so he signs up to be part of an paid experimental drug trial. The drugs cause him to halucinate and believe that he is actually a painter in the 1650's. Or does it? He isn't sure if 1650 is reality or now is reality or what. Sounds convoluted? It is. Michael Gruber (local Seattle writer) did a good job in describing th...more

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Jan 12, 2011

Chris rated it

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Amazing...Tearing through this...
Present day, a talented painter finds himself painting like an old master, so much so that he is having hallucinations / memories of his (past) life as Valazquez. In the telling of his story, he is jumping from the present to the past, from his life, to that of the master and we are trying to figure out who is actually doing the painting...
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Jun 14, 2009

Min rated it

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I nearly gave this book four stars. I really liked it in parts and then there were other times I couldn't make myself pick it up. The first quarter is particularly difficult to get through. The whole bit about telling the story via recorded messages was a bit hard for me. And I didn't really connect with Chaz all that well.

The base of the novel was interesting - a dual life both in the present in the past.

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Jun 17, 2009

Keith rated it

If memory defines identity of self and our sensory input provides us with place and time, who are we when these things change and shift about when we attempt to use them? Is Charles Wilmont an artistically unfulfilled commercial illustrator with all of the baggage of an unhappy lifetime or is he Don Diego de Silva y Velazquez, court favorite of the King of Spain in the sixteenth century ? He’s not certain and you’ll be equally undecided until the very end of this intriguing tale. This is a ri...more

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Dec 17, 2010

Jean Marie rated it

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Shelves: mystery-thriller

I loved this book. It's not on my all time favorite list, but it's on the "will definite reread list". As always, I'll refrain from discussing the actual plot of the book and talk about the other things. What I loved about this was it's style. The narrator, Chaz Wilmot, is a great character and incredible real. No flowery writing her, just straight up honesty. As an artist myself, I understood his frustration deep in my own bones. His adrenaline rush on the medication during the flashb...more

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Dec 07, 2008

Christa rated it

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Shelves: library

Michael Gruber writes the tale of a contemporary artist whose perceptions of reality are upended when he participates in a drug study and begins having visions of a life in the past as the painter, Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez. Most of the novel is written from the first person perspective of the main character, Chaz Wilmot, or his alter ego Velazquez, but the story begins and ends with the first person point of view of a college friend of Wilmot. I found this book to be unique and refres...more

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Jan 04, 2009

Cynthia rated it

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Shelves: art-fiction

I love books that explore Art: creation, history of, art theory and this was great in that respect.

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May 17, 2009

Michael rated it

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I figure I have to read any book that Ali gives five stars.

Based on the little I read about it, I was expecting a very different book. Words like "thriller", "suspense", and "mystery" are bandied about on the Amazon review snippets, but they don't really apply.

This is more of a rumination on authenticity and identity, especially as they relate to art.

I think I would've enjoyed it more if I'd known anything at all about visual ar...more

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Apr 28, 2009

DWGibb rated it

Terrific read. Fascinating inside look at the international art business and the inner workings of the mind of an artist, Chaz Wilmot, who is having difficulties differentiating between fantasy and reality. This becomes particularly true when Chaz finds himself inside the skin of Diego Velásquez, living and painting in the 15th Century.

When Chaz once again finds himself in the 21st Century, his unique ability to paint exactly like Velásquez nets him a very unusual and somewhat irregu...more

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