by Susan Vreeland · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495971739
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue is a collection of stories by Susan Vreeland that explore the influence of a 17th-century Dutch painting, attributed to Jan Vermeer, on the lives of its successive owners throughout the centuries. From a mathematics professor who refuses to reveal how it came into his hands, to a German soldier who risks his life to protect it, each story reveals the beauty and transformative power of art. The author traces an itinerary from the present to the moment when Vermeer conceived the oil, turning it into a direct witness of the stories of its owners.
Susan Joyce Vreeland was an American author. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. The Passion of Artemisia is a fictionalized investigation of some aspects of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while Girl in Hyacinth Blue centers round an imaginary painting by Vermeer. The Forest Lover is a fictionalized account of the life of the Canadian painter Emily Carr.
