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The Titian Committee (Jonathan Argyll, #2)
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The Danish Girl
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David Ebershoff (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 24,800 ratings
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People of the Book
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
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Duchess of Milan
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Gillespie and I
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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
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Life Mask
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
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False Impression
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 24,657 ratings
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Dark Reign (The Collector Trilogy, #1)
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Amelia Wilde (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 2,853 ratings
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Big Baker
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Cassie Mint (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,924 ratings
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Second Place
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Ophelia's Muse
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Rita Cameron (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Dot
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The Choir
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Sweet Mercy (The Collector Trilogy, #2)
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Amelia Wilde (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,826 ratings
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Diego y Frida
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The Baker's Daughter
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The Savage Garden
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Arcadia Falls
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Carol Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 6,460 ratings
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The Stone Carvers
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Men and Angels
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The Woman in the Photograph
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Dana Gynther (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 716 ratings
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Die Amerikanische Malerin Emma Dial
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Skinny Legs and All
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A Palette for Murder (Murder, She Wrote, #7)
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Life Model
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Cassie Mint (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Miss Seeton Draws the Line (Miss Seeton, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 1,398 ratings
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Three Fates
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 25,084 ratings
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Cruel Princes (Princes of Devil's Creek, #1)
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Jillian Frost (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 7,649 ratings
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The Magnum Model
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Olivia T. Turner (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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Light: Monet at Giverny
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3.81 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Outcry (New York Review Books Classics)
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3.18 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Chesapeake Blue (Chesapeake Bay Saga, #4)
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 36,883 ratings
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A Grave Talent (Kate Martinelli, #1)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 7,952 ratings
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Jude's Law (Law, #1)
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Lori Foster (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 7,021 ratings
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The Improbability of Love
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Hannah Rothschild (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 15,889 ratings
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A Name In Blood
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Matt Rees (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
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Picture Miss Seeton (Miss Seeton, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
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Asunder
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3.43 avg rating — 767 ratings
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The Girl Next Door
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Emma Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
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Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 33,285 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The Age of Light
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Whitney Scharer (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 13,238 ratings
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The Trackers
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Next to Nature Art
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3.49 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Frost
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3.85 avg rating — 2,046 ratings
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Savage Knights (Princes of Devil's Creek, #3)
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Jillian Frost (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 4,063 ratings
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The Beautiful American
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Jeanne Mackin (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 2,947 ratings
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Heart Mountain
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3.81 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The House Between Tides
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Sarah Maine (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 9,665 ratings
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The Other Side of the Season
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Jenn J. McLeod (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Birdman's Wife
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Melissa Ashley (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 1,819 ratings
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Alive in Shape and Color: 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired
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3.55 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Vicious Queen (Princes of Devil's Creek, #2)
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Jillian Frost (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 4,993 ratings
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Broken
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Madison Faye (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 669 ratings
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Blood Water Paint
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Joy McCullough (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 9,818 ratings
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The Forger
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3.81 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Under the Greenwood Tree
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Don't Look
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3.62 avg rating — 3,086 ratings
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Bossed Around
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3.54 avg rating — 2,506 ratings
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The Art Lesson
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4.24 avg rating — 4,356 ratings
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The Girl You Left Behind
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Jojo Moyes (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 177,865 ratings
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Becoming Lisette
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Rebecca Glenn (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Finding Vincent
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Angle of Repose
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O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An Amerian Roman
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Stalk Me Now
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Frankie Love (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Tentacle Entanglement (Monster Mates, #1)
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Siggy Shade (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 6,964 ratings
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While My Pretty One Sleeps
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Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol
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To The Bright Edge of the World
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4.12 avg rating — 23,014 ratings
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The Loo Sanction (Jonathan Hemlock, #2)
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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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Seen Art?
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The Glassmaker
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 32,309 ratings
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Is He Living or Is He Dead? (Annotated)
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3.81 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Art and Lies
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The Savage Detectives
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Remember Arizona
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Rebecca Sharp (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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The Slynx
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Dead Sleep
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So Much Blue
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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The Light of Day
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The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #27)
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Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Hilary Tamar, #1)
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Trouble the Water
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Nicole Seitz (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Josephine Baker's Last Dance
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Sherry Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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The Documents in the Case
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Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)
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Music Box Danseur
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3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
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In Over Her Head
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Elsie Russell (Goodreads Author)
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Shiva's Arms
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Cheryl Snell (Goodreads Author)
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Kissing Alice
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The Blue Period
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Luke Jerod Kummer (Goodreads Author)
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The Face of Deception (Eve Duncan, #1)
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Iris Johansen (Goodreads Author)
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Leonora in the Morning Light
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Michaela Carter (Goodreads Author)
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Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia
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Sep 26, 2009 06:16AM
It's hard to believe The Lost Painting is non-fiction. It doesn't belong on this list, but what-the-hell. It's not a paper-chase, it's a ....a PAINT-chase, a fabulous true story. God Bless Captain Harr !
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I love art in books. It is so beautiful. I want to read all of the books on this list!
Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc
Katherine wrote: "Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc"What is your favourite on the list Katherine? My top three are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Madonnas of Lennigrad
The Swan Thieves
Hi Lisa, I, too, chose Girl with the Pearl Earring but have not read the others. I picked DaVinci Code, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Girl in Hyacinthe Blue. I wrote a little blurb with each choice. I'll have to check out your other two.
Hi KatherineI haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'll check out your blurb. I have read the others you recommended. It is always good to get recommendations from others with similar taste. Thank you very much Katherine.
The Gardner Heist is non-fiction, not fiction.
Joyce's PORTRAIT.... ?? Jessica, we need clarification here....surely you don't want books about LITERARY artists....big canna worms !
This list alone is nearly a years worth of reading. ;0
I love stories of paintings and artist - simply reading a history book is dull to me, but love the history and learning. To read in a story form is wonderful (Yes, I now the story part of it is fictitious, the passion and artistic reference is so real)
Normb4 wrote: "I love stories of paintings and artist - simply reading a history book is dull to me, but love the history and learning. To read in a story form is wonderful (Yes, I now the story part of it is fic..."You might like the crime novels of Daniel Silva. His detective, Gabriel Allon, is an art restorer by trade.
Lisa wrote: "Katherine wrote: "Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc"What is your favourite on the list Katherine? My top three are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Madonnas of Le..."
I just finished The Swan Thieves, and love, love, loved it.
Mayine wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Katherine wrote: "Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc"What is your favourite on the list Katherine? My top three are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The M..."
Me too Mayine. Have you read her other book The Historian. I loved it just as much.
I'm surprised no one had nominated In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past): Proust 6-pack, which is widely considered one of the finest examples of the Künstlerroman novel. Well, it's there now.
Currently reading Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell. It's breathtakingly beautiful. Joy of joy, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art today and was able to totally immerse myself in Monet's paintings, especially the few on view there of Camille. What a thrill - each brushstroke is alive with stories of their lives, the rich history of that time, and Monet's contemporaries (Renoir, Pissarro, Bazille, Degas...) Happy day!
Lisa wrote: "Hi KatherineI haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'll check out your blurb. I have read the others you recommended. It is always good to get recommendations from others with similar tast..."
The painter is based loosely on john singer Sargent
Brenda wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Hi KatherineI haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'll check out your blurb. I have read the others you recommended. It is always good to get recommendations from others with ..."
Thanks Brenda. I will add it to the list.
Currently reading Elizabeth Hickey's The Painted Kiss about Gustav Klimt and Emily Floge... (Klimt's beloved muse, mistress, model - she's the woman in The Kiss.) Oh my goodness... I love Hickey's writing style, the book draws you in immediately. Richly textured, very atmospheric, the beautiful descriptions of Vienna, the various characters who come to life... The beginning is wonderful... so far, a rare gem of a book.
Irving Stone's The Agony and The Ecstasy, and Lust for Life, are my all-time favorites. BA Shapiro's The Art Forger is also really good. I just finished Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World.Now checking into these lists, can't wait for a next good read.
There's a book I read a few years ago whose title I can't remember for the life of me ... it's about a painter who uses magic to transfer his mind into other people's bodies. The names are vaguely Italian, and he lives for hundreds of years, 'reincarnating' himself by transferring himself into one young budding artist after another. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Blind guardian - It sounds a little like a book I read by Susan Hill, but I don't remember the title.
Hi - vast list! Just to note: #138 The Hare with the Amber Eyes is non-fiction (biography). It is an excellent book though!
I am in the art world and enjoy this incredible list of wonderful books. I enjoyed The Hare with the Amber Eyes as well. The author traced the Ephrussi family through many decades. Another fascinating story is The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustave Klimt"s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Blauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor. A fascinating read as well as historical story.
Seven Days in the Art World by Thornton isn't fiction.
Strapless is not fiction. It is straight up non-fiction. Why is it on this list? It is an excellent book but doesn't belong here.
I just put RUNNING, by JT Cooper on the list. It's a crime thriller wherein the main character is an artist. If anyone really wants the full scoop - www.jtcooperauthor.com Anyway, one artist who read it said, through her husband on facebook, that JT "has the heart and mind of an artist as the author of this novel."
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