Author : Elizabeth Hickey
Publisher : Beyond Words/Atria Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the tradition of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" and "The Girl in Hyacinth Blue," a beautiful, atmospheric, and sensual debut re-imagines the tempestuous relationship between painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floege, the youngest daughter of a bourgeois businessman.
Author : Elizabeth Hickey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 141651659X
Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siècle Austria—and the subject of Helen Mirren’s latest film, Woman in Gold—takes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter and Emilie Flöge, the woman who posed for his masterpiece The Kiss, and whose name he uttered with his dying breath. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It is here where the twelve-year-old Emilie meets the controversial libertine and painter. Hired by her bourgeois father for basic drawing lessons, Klimt introduces Emilie to a subculture of dissolute artists, wanton models, and decadent patrons that both terrifies and inspires her. The Painted Kiss follows Emilie as she blossoms from a naïve young girl to one of Europe's most exclusive couturiers—and Klimt's most beloved model and mistress. A provocative love story that brings to life Vienna's cultural milieu, The Painted Kiss is as compelling as a work by Klimt himself.
Author : Elizabeth Hickey
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Austria
ISBN : 9780733620669
Elizabeth Hickey's beguiling debut THE PAINTED KISS is a page-turning novel about romance, art and beauty that will delight anyone who is looking for an entertaining summer read. The grandeur of nineteenth-century Vienna with its elegant cafes, grand opera houses and thriving artistic community provides the backdrop as young Emilie Floge begins painting lessons with the controversial artist Gustav Klimt. A passionate relationship ensures - with lifelong consequences for both Emilie and her famous mentor. Elizabeth Hickey, inspired by their love affair, did not choose to write a factual biography but an engaging and romantic story. She has let her imagination fill in the missing details and given room for readers' imaginations also to take flight. The result is a page-turning good read about two passionate characters living a life we can now only dream of in the sumptuous and colourful city of Vienna.
Author : Melanie Bennett Jacobson
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Salt Lake City (Utah)
ISBN : 9781621088516
Manhattan artist turned waitress in a small Salt Lake City diner, Lia Carswel receives an offer to create a series of commissioned paintings. Lia knows it would ensure financial security for her family, but she doesn't know if she wants that life anymore.
Author : Amy Gibson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0312376472
A journey of the heart follows a handful of kisses as it travels throughout the United States from San Francisco and New Orleans to New York City.
Author : Anne-Marie O'Connor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1101873124
National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece—the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, its decision had profound ramifications in the art world. Expertly researched, masterfully told, The Lady in Gold is at once a stunning depiction of fin-de siècle Vienna, a riveting tale of Nazi war crimes, and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes workings of the contemporary art world. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the Marfield National Award for Arts Writing. Winner of a California Book Award.
Author : Lucia Grahame
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385468305
Desperate to pay the man who is blackmailing her, Fleur Deslingnere reluctantly marries Anthony Camwell, the handsome but formal aristocrat whose repressed desire for Fleur has consumed him for years.
Author : Gilles Néret
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783822859803
Gustav Klimt's art thoroughly expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore plays an important role in Klimt's art. Klimt's fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his times. In particular, his drawings, which have been widely admired for their artistic excellence, are dominated by the erotic portrayal of women. Klimt saw the world "in female form". [site accessed 23/07/2012 - http://www.amazon.com/Gustav-Klimt-1862-1918-Basic-Art/dp/382285980X].
Author : Stephanie Perkins
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1409579956
Anna had everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere... Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna finds herself making new friends, including Étienne St. Clair, the smart, beautiful boy from the floor above. But he's taken – and Anna might be too. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss she's been waiting for?
Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473539358
SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL AMAZON PRIME SERIES _____________________________ DETECTIVE ALEX CROSS'S NIECE IS MISSING Cross fears the disappearance could be linked to a string of recent abductions and murders that are terrorising the US. Two killers, operating on opposite sides of the country, are collaborating and competing to commit increasingly horrific crimes. If he's to rescue his niece, Cross must hunt down these two brutal masterminds. All the while, countless lives hang in the balance. _____________________________ 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD 'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBEN
