Author: Joan Kelley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532048319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Onto the stage of Vienna in the late 19th Century strides virile, charismatic painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Standing center stage is a talented and independent fashion designer and businesswoman, Emilie Flöge (1874 -1952). For the next 27 years, the famous and infamous Klimt bears criticism, censure and fame with Flöge by his side. The tempestuous love and fierce friendship of this talented couple – opposites in so many ways –deepens until Klimt’s death . . . and beyond. Vienna Patterns happens during a Time and in a City never equaled for fashion, fabulous art and fascinating personalities. The story of Klimt and Flöge is very theatrical . . . very Vienna.
Author: Joan Kelley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532072236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Whether the canvases of Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) celebrated the exquisite landscapes of Austria’s Attersee region or caressed the cheek of a lovely young laundress, his appreciation of his subjects was sensitive, sensual and strong. No other painter in Vienna at the close of the 19th century was as revered—and often reviled—as this outrageous artist wearing only a knowing expression and a long blue smock. One of the women who found her way onto his canvas and into his bed was Mizzi Zimmermann (the subject of this book, Dirty Linen), whom he would cherish, in his way, until his death. Mizzi, and the subjects of Book One—Vienna Patterns (Emilie Flöge) and Book Two—Diamonds and Sand (Adele Bloch-Bauer) enjoy everlasting admiration, thanks to Klimt’s brush—A Brush with Passion.
Author: Joan Kelley
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532060548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 671
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Diamonds and Sand Adele Bloch-Bauer (1882-1925) did not seek fame—but acclaimed and passionate artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) thrust her into the public’s eye by painting two portraits that assured her lasting admiration and speculation. Both portraits were commissioned by her wealthy industrialist husband—and each illustrated different, almost contradictory views of the intellectually curious, mysterious woman. As a child, Adele escaped the rules of a repressive Vienna in the last decades of the 19th century, by conjuring a secret tunnel that gave life to her fantasies. Only when she began sitting for Klimt’s portrait of her did her fantasies slide into reality, bringing both blinding ecstasy and paralyzing guilt. Her journey is intriguing... Join her...
Author: Brenda Casey Zoby
Publisher: Penultimate
ISBN: 9780965138222
Category : Calligraphy
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Georgina Artigas is an internationally known lettering artist whose passion for the pen is obvious in every piece reproduced in this full-color book. The beautiful scrolls, invitations, certificates, logos, and art pieces represent only a fraction of her life's work and demonstrate a versatility and range that few calligraphic artists achieve.
Author: Susan Vreeland
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142001820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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"Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue.... The Passion of Artemisia is even better.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget." —People A true-to-life novel of one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era against great struggle. Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" life. Vreeland tells Artemisia's captivating story, beginning with her public humiliation in a rape trial at the age of eighteen, and continuing through her father's betrayal, her marriage of convenience, motherhood, and growing fame as an artist. Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, Genoa, and Naples, inhabited by historical characters such as Galileo and Cosimo de' Medici II, and filled with rich details about life as a seventeenth-century painter, Vreeland creates an inspiring story about one woman's lifelong struggle to reconcile career and family, passion and genius.
Author: Gaelen Foley
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345496698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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From the glittering ballrooms of Regency England to the sapphire waters of the Mediterranean, the dazzling finale of Gaelen Foley’s Spice trilogy unfurls the passionate tale of a rebel princess and the powerful warrior destined to become her champion. Princess Sophia was only a child when Napoleon conquered the island paradise ruled by her father. Raised in England and now twenty-one, she means to claim the throne that is rightfully hers and bring peace to her war-torn land. But an ambush by enemies forces Sophia into hiding outside London. Disguising herself as a peasant girl until she can safely return, she meets Major Gabriel Knight, a wounded warrior whose brush with death has utterly changed him. Heir to a great fortune, and a master swordsman, Gabriel has given up his worldly possessions and laid down his arms. Sophia is fascinated by his brooding magnetism, and Gabriel, lured by her fiery beauty and healed by her touch, is drawn back inexorably toward the world of the living. But when Sophia’s royal destiny is revealed, Gabriel knows he must take up his sword again, whatever the cost, to protect his princess from those who would destroy her. And as longing blossoms into passion, Gabriel discovers the one cause that is truly worth fighting for. . . .
Author: Judith Ridge
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763696714
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Author: J. Winfield Currie
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458205061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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A tale of passion, betrayal, and courage set in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War an unforgettable love story seamlessly interwoven with both real and fictitious characters. Beyond All Reason Book I Awakening Passion A powerful saga of courage and passion, set in the South during the Revolutionary War, unites Kathryn MacLean, sister of a rebel militia leader, and Colonel Jason Tarrington, a malicious British Green Dragoon two dynamic individuals abruptly thrown together, their destinies forever entwined by a life-changing twist of fate. Conflict, betrayal, and loyalties torn asunder drive Kathryn and her brother to opposite sides in an ugly war her enduring passion for the wrong man and his cause, pitting her against all she had once held dear. Driven relentlessly to succeed in a bloody war they will ultimately lose, can Jason and Kathryn survive? For theirs is a love Beyond All Reason. Beyond All Odds Book II Rebuilding Shattered Lives As the acrid smoke clears after the battle at Guilford Courthouse, NC, Lieutenant Jackson, a British Dragoon, finds himself miraculously still amongst the living. Scanning the endless bodies scattered across the oozing red mud, he discovers devastating personal loss. But grieving must wait. He has a sacred promise to fulfill: save an innocent child from becoming a pawn in this ugly war for she would be considered a valuable prize by either side. It was her notorious parents who had led many an English victory in the South. Beyond The Horizon Book III Life Comes Full Circle The Revolutionary War has been declared over, but to the citizens of Charleston struggling to forget past humiliation suffered under Lord Cornwallis, ongoing British presence is a bitter reminder. The Tarringtons, just arrived from England and embroiled in a dangerous mission of their own, must not be recognized. The success of their crucial undertaking depends on that. Once accomplished, they intend to start life over, but who to trust and where to go? Perhaps their answer lies in the vast forests of the Carolinas where endless possibilities exist. But danger lurks on all sides: devious strangers, former dragoons even family. Share Kathryn and Jasons tale of enduring passion and courage as their life unfolds and comes full circle.
Author: Michael Reaves
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 9780671499426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Centuries after the Necromancer had shattered the world and a group of wizards had bound the fragments together, there arises a new cult of magicians who want to resurrect the Necromancer to restore the world
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101591439
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak . . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific . . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism . . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.
