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Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage (Mackenzies & McBrides, #2)
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Jennifer Ashley (Goodreads Author)
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Beauty in the Ashes
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Micalea Smeltzer (Goodreads Author)
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Among The Blue Horses: The Masters Reimagined 2
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Elle Andrews Patt (Goodreads Author)
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Insel
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Manette Salomon
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Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960
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Piano in the Dark
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The Light We Lost
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Jill Santopolo (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 195,188 ratings
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Sirens & Muses
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Antonia Angress (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 15,727 ratings
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Olive
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Heartbreaker (Buchanan-Renard, #1)
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Two Wrongs Make a Right (The Wilmot Sisters #1)
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Chloe Liese (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 38,081 ratings
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The Golden Manuscripts (Between Two Worlds, #6)
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Evy Journey (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The God of My Art
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Sarah Lane (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Phoenix
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1988
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Guernica
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Uno zoo d'inverno
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El Legado de van Gogh - Pequeños relatos
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Blind Stitches
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3.45 avg rating — 42 ratings
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River of Fire (Fallen Angels, #6)
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A Married Woman
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Model, Volume 1
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A Curl of Copper and Pearl
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The Fragile Flower (Dulcie Chambers Mysteries, #3)
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Kerry J. Charles (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Cézanne's Quarry
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Barbara Corrado Pope (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
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Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant
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Christopher Peter Grey (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Chasing Cezanne
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Surrender
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Amanda Quick (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,894 ratings
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Roses and Rot
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Kat Howard (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 3,681 ratings
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Fair Play
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Lost in the City of Flowers (The Histories of Idan #1)
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Maria C. Trujillo (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Before and Again
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Barbara Delinsky (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 11,969 ratings
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| 515 |
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Truths (Art of Eros, #1)
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Kenzie Macallan (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Eyes of Mona Lisa: The Masters Reimagined Volume 2
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Bria Burton (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Niels Lyhne
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A Breath of Fresh Air
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Cooking for Picasso
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Camille Aubray (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 9,677 ratings
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| 540 |
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The Smile
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Donna Jo Napoli (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,902 ratings
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| 540 |
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My Fair Captain (Sci-Regency #1)
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| 540 |
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The Madonna of the Almonds
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La bonne peinture
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Portraits
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Patience
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The Isabella Club
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William Kuhn (Goodreads Author)
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The King's Agent
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Donna Russo Morin (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 17,534 ratings
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
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Art in Nature
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Edges (Art of Eros, #2)
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Kenzie Macallan (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Doom Patrol, Vol. 2: The Painting That Ate Paris
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Storey's Orphans: The Masters Reimagined 2
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Veronica Helen Hart (Goodreads Author)
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Until I Find You
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 27,446 ratings
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| 554 |
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Among Thieves (Scott Finn #3)
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Bijou, Bonbon and Beau: The Kittens Who Danced for Degas
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Circles of Deceit
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The Great Man
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Kate Christensen (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 2,676 ratings
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Murder at the Mendel (A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery #2)
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3.66 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Restrike (Coleman and Dinah Greene Mysteries #1)
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3.44 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Portrait of Bethany
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Graffiti Moon
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Cath Crowley (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 20,115 ratings
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Love Creeps
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The Painting
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Nina Schuyler (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Grist
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| 554 |
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The Playboy Bachelor (The Bachelors of Arizona, #2)
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Rachel Van Dyken (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 2,453 ratings
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The Scream: The Masters Reimagined Volume 2
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Charles A Cornell (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Watercolourist
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The Forger
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House of Cads (Ladies of Scandal, #2)
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Elizabeth Kingston (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 242 ratings
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| 570 |
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Rodin's Debutante
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Real Life
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Kitty Burns Florey (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 570 |
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Hemingway's Girl
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Erika Robuck (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 5,787 ratings
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Σπουδές
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Fluturele negru
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Shadows At The Fair (Antique Print, #1)
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A Tabernacle for the Sun (The Botticelli Trilogy #1)
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Linda Proud (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Girl in a Golden Bed
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Framed
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Face of the Enemy: A New York in Wartime Mystery #1
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Joanne Dobson (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
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Jeffrey Ford (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 983 ratings
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The Painter's Apprentice
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Charlotte Betts (Goodreads Author)
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Scars
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Cheryl Rainfield (Goodreads Author)
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The Idea of You
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Robinne Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 170,503 ratings
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Soul for a Soul: The Masters Reimagined Volume 2
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Abroad
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The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6)
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Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym)
4.12 avg rating — 112,576 ratings
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The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 115,281 ratings
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The Painter's Daughters
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Emily Howes (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 2,792 ratings
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Pieces of Georgia
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Rembrandt's Whore
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The Lovers
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Something Blue
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Ann Hood (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
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The Pianist in the Dark
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Pandora (Rutshire Chronicles, #7)
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Pallas and the Centaur (The Botticelli Trilogy, #2)
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Linda Proud (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Golden Tulip
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Painting Caitlyn (Caitlyn, #1)
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Kimberly Joy Peters (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel
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Oil and Hemlock: The Masters Reimagined Volume 2
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Kristin Durfee (Goodreads Author)
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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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