![]() ![]() Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland is the story of how the owners of the painting Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Johannes Vermeer are influenced by its beauty and mystery. A terrifying premonition of the theft of a priceless Rembrandt family portrait draws psychic art historian Angela Renatus on a search for the truth about the masterpiece. The Girl Who Adored Rembrandt by Belle Ami is the third book in the breathtaking Out of Time Thriller Series. The novel combines all the qualities of a naturalist tragedy, historical novel and exposition of seventeenth-century Dutch society. Rembrandt's Whore by Sylvie Matton is a powerful fictional portrait of the impassioned relationship between Rembrandt and Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt’s last mistress, set in the fascinating context of a turbulent era of Dutch history. Will it be a poem or a portrait that wins the favours of the captain’s passionate – and scheming – wife? But he has a rival – none other than the poet Andrew Marvell. ![]() For himself, he paints the captain’s beautiful wife, hoping to seduce her as he has many sitters before. To pay his passage, he must paint the captain’s portrait. The Painter by Will Davenport stars in January, 1662 when Rembrandt, bankrupt and drunk, stows away on a boat for Hull. The Anatomy Lesson takes us through a single day in Golden Age Amsterdam as the city is preparing for the Winter Festival: executions, followed by a public dissection, and then a banquet and torch parade through town. The Anatomy Lesson by Nina Siegel is an engrossing historical novel set in the Dutch Golden Age that brilliantly imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings. Spanning centuries and continents, the novel is a brilliant, intelligent, fast-paced thriller that melds art and history into a provocative work of fiction. Centuries after it was painted, Miereveld stunning portrait of the Virgin Mary is about to be sold at auction when it's discovered that the painting's real owner lost his life to the Nazis. The Chrysalis by Heather Terrell is a fast-paced, dual-time thriller featuring a stunning painting created by Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld. The novel richly weaves the journey of a woman of ambition set against the backdrop of Rembrandt and an uncompromising religion. ![]() The strange circumstances surrounding its disappearance prompt Joanna to investigate the theft.Ī Light of Her Own by Carrie Callahan is a vivid portrait of Judith Leyster, a remarkable Dutch painter from the 17th century whose work was lost to history until 1893. The Cavalier in White by Marcia Muller is Book 1 in the Joanna Stark Mysteries series in which a Frans Hals painting, The Cavalier in White, is stolen from the M.H. Emerging as a thoroughly funny, charming man, Hals reaches out from centuries past to touch and change Peter's life forever. When ancient notebooks surface in a Long Island garage, Peter Van Overloop, a Columbia grad student, sets about translating them, and finds himself immersed in the life and times of the Dutch painter Frans Hals. The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals by Michael Kernan is a seamless merging of literary invention and historic fact. In this post, I’m featuring ten novels inspired by Dutch Old Masters. Collectively referred to as the Dutch Old Masters, painters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Judith Leyster among many others, created some of the most iconic paintings in western culture. While the Italian Renaissance provided the backdrop for the production of great works of art by the likes of Michelangelo and Raphael, an equally dazzling array of artists was producing masterpieces in northern Europe. ![]()
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