The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a beautifully written and expertly crafted novel that will leave you not only dreaming of the landscape of a mysterious painting, but also of the times and places that connect together throughout. The austere backdrop of seventeenth century Amsterdam provides the setting for one thread to this story/5. In this extraordinary novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth/5(K). "In The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith moves effortlessly between his seventeenth century artist and those who fall under the spell of her work more than three hundred years later. Smith is a writer of huge gifts and his descriptions of the painting and of those who fall in love with it (and with each other) are rendered with wondrous intelligence and keen wit/5(K).
A RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING LINKS THREE LIVES, ON THREE CONTINENTS, OVER THREE CENTURIES IN THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, AN EXHILARATING NEW NOVEL FROM DOMINIC SMITH. Amsterdam, Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city's Guild of St. Luke. Dominic Smith's historical-fiction meets mystery novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, recently won Amazon's best book of the month. His Sara de Vos is a fictional artist, inspired by the. The item The last painting of Sara De Vos, Dominic Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This item is available to borrow from all library branches. Creator. Smith, Dominic,
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a beautifully written and expertly crafted novel that will leave you not only dreaming of the landscape of a mysterious painting, but also of the times and places that connect together throughout. The austere backdrop of seventeenth century Amsterdam provides the setting for one thread to this story. In The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith moves effortlessly between his seventeenth century artist and those who fall under the spell of her work more than three hundred years later. Smith is a writer of huge gifts and his descriptions of the painting and of those who fall in love with it, (and with each other) are rendered with wondrous intelligence and keen wit. The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith is a novel about two people whose lives become entwined due to their mutual obsession with a 17th century Dutch artist, Sara De Vos. Marty de Groot owns De Vos’s painting, and when it’s stolen and replaced by a fake, he’s determined to get revenge.
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