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Susan vreelands second novel, girl in hyacinth blue, may be a book about a painting, but it is never content with surfaces. Consider their situations, natures, actions, and words. A connection between vermeers painting and vreelands novel. A connection between vermeers painting and vreelands novel johannes vermeer 163275 is a dutch realist painter of the baroque era in the seventeenth century whose paintings focused on everyday life scenes from neighborhoods in delft city, the ordinary people. The first edition of the novel was published in 1999, and was written by susan vreeland. What are the advantages or disadvantages of telling the story this way. Centered on a painting by johannes vermeer, this tale is as breathtaking as any vermeer.
Luckily, you dont have to know art history to enjoy the book. Girl in hyacinth blue audiobook, by susan vreeland. Girl in hyacinth blue by susan vreeland, paperback. In it we see the back of a painter, brush in hand, studying a young girl in blue, holding a book, who stands by a window.
Tracing the influence of one extraordinary picture on a succession of human lives, it touches gently yet thoughtfully on such weighty topics as the immortality of a great artwork and the ways in which art can be used for various ends. Chicago turabian author date citation style guide vreeland, susan. Girl in hyacinth blue kindle edition by vreeland, susan. Each story can be read and appreciated on its own, but when taken all together, they create something greater than the sum of their parts. Despite their many troubles and unsatisfied longings, the girl in hyacinth blue has the power to inspire love in all its human variety. This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to.
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From a proud father regretting his lost love to a compromised french noblewoman, from a hanged girl to vermeers own gifted daughter, susan vreelands beautiful and luminous tales link to. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. Farther back still, a happily married dutch couple owns the paintingand when the husband admits that the girl in it reminds him of an earlier lover, the marriage is briefly shaken adagia. Girl in hyacinth blue is a series of vignettes chronicling the reverse history of a fictional vermeer painting of the same name. Girl in hyacinth blue by susan vreeland waterstones.
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Tracing the influence of one extraordinary picture on a succession of human lives, it touches gently yet thoughtfully on such weighty topics as the immortality of a great artwork and the ways in which art can be used. A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept secret for decades in susan vreelands powerful historical novel. Discuss the different ways in which the paintingthe girl spoke to her. Susan vreeland imagined just such a humble domestic scene, suggested it was created in 17thcentury holland, and attributed it to jan vermeer. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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