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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Portrait of a Silver Lady
Author: Bruce A. MacGregor
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Portrait of an Unknown Lady
Author: Maria Gainza
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646220331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us “not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates . . . My techniques are those of the impressionist.” Driven by obsession and full of subtle surprise, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a highly seductive and enveloping meditation on what we mean by "authenticity" in art, and a captivating exploration of the gap between what is lived and what is told.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646220331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us “not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates . . . My techniques are those of the impressionist.” Driven by obsession and full of subtle surprise, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a highly seductive and enveloping meditation on what we mean by "authenticity" in art, and a captivating exploration of the gap between what is lived and what is told.
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Author: Donna M. Lucey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
The Royal Lady's Magazine
National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868
The London Journal of Arts and Sciences
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Containing reports of all new patents, with a description of their respective principles and properties: also, original communications on subjects connected with science and philosophy; particularly such as embrace the most recent inventions and dicoveries in practical mechanics.
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Containing reports of all new patents, with a description of their respective principles and properties: also, original communications on subjects connected with science and philosophy; particularly such as embrace the most recent inventions and dicoveries in practical mechanics.
Official Catalogue
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Category : Annual International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Annual International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Rings for the Finger
Author: George Frederick Kunz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144240
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Wealth of material on rings: the poison-bearing rings of the Borgias, Solomon’s ring, religious uses, healing, methods of ring making. 290 illus.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144240
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Wealth of material on rings: the poison-bearing rings of the Borgias, Solomon’s ring, religious uses, healing, methods of ring making. 290 illus.
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy
Author: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Biennial Report
Author: Louisiana State Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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