artists' models

Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is. She knows duck-billed platypuses don't have stomachs. She knows that fourteen squirrels were once detained as spies. She knows only one flag in the world features a building. And for once, Harriet knows exactly how her life should go. She's got it all planned out. So when love is in the air, Harriet is determined to Make Things Happen! If only everyone else would stick to the script . . . Has GEEK GIRL overstepped the mark, and is following the rules going to break hearts all over again?.

Sylvette gradually begins to gain self-confidence during the summer she models for the renowned artist Pablo Picasso in the French village of Vallauris.

Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.

"To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, "Christina's World."--Jacket flap.

Audrey Munson was America's first supermodel. When she was a little girl of five years old, she and her mother visited a Gypsy fortune teller. What they heard was accurate---she would be beloved and famous, would make a fortune but waste it all, and would never find true love, although many men would be in her life. She became the artist's model of choice and her form appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Her beauty made her famous, especially when it was carved in stone. Her beauty also paved the way for her life of glamour, passion, and ultimately tragedy. Her promising career collapsed, her doctor fell in love with her and killed his own wife, and on her fortieth birthday, her mother committed her to an insane asylum. She remained there until her death in 1996 at the age of 104.

Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.

In Paris, France, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Marie's ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter.

Internationally acclaimed painter Ned Weaver becomes obsessed with his model, leading to complications in both his marriage and his career.

Translates the journal of Fernande Olivier, artist's model and love of Pablo Picasso, along with many of her letters and some of her memoirs, which were published in French in the 1930s. She discusses her childhood, her forced marriage at eighteen to an abusive man, her seven years with Picasso, and her life afterward.

No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Descended from ancient nobles, she gave birth to six children and died at age sixty-three. Her life spanned the most tumultuous chapters in the history of Florence, decades of war, rebellion, invasion, siege, and conquest--and of the greatest artistic outpouring the world has ever seen. Her story creates an extraordinary tapestry of Renaissance Florence, inhabited by larger-than-legend figures such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli.