| Title |
La última pintura de Sara de Vos
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| Names |
Smith, Dominic.
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Ferrer, Isabel. Translator
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Milla Soler, Carlos. Translator
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| Book Number |
DB125563
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| Title Status |
In Process
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| Language |
Spanish
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| Annotation |
"A masterful new story charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painter. This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly 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 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain--a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerizes while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present." -- Provided by publisher. -- Some violence and some strong language. Spanish language.
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"Ámsterdam, 1631. Sara de Vos, primera mujer admitida como maestra pintora de la Guilda de San Lucas, desafía la prohibición impuesta a las mujeres y pinta un paisaje. Nueva York, 1957. La única obra de Sara de Vos que ha sobrevivido pertenece al abogado Marty de Groot. Este no puede sospechar que Ellie Shipley, una estudiante australiana de historia del arte, lo ha falsificado. Sídney, 2000. Ellie está organizando una exposición dedicada a las pintoras del Siglo de Oro holandés. Cuando descubre que los dos cuadros de Sara de Vos, el original y su falsificación, están de camino al museo, la vida que ha logrado forjar con tanto esfuerzo amenaza con desplomarse." -- Proporcionada por la editorial. -- Traducido de la edición en inglés de 2016. Contiene algo de lenguaje ofensivo y algunas descripciones de violencia.
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Audience Notes |
Contains some violence. NLS/BPH
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Contains some strong language. NLS/BPH
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| Local Subject |
Novels
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General Fiction - GFI
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Spanish, Fiction. (in Spanish) - SPAF
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Titles in Spanish - SPA
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American fiction - Pre 1970 - 813
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American literature in English - 810
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| LC Subject |
Art historians - Fiction
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Art - Forgeries - Fiction
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Painting, Dutch - 17th century - Fiction
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Women artists - Netherlands - Fiction
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Historical fiction
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Fiction
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| Series |
Summer Reading Program 2025
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| Call Number |
813.6 AFI
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress,
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| Original Publication |
Recorded from: Madrid : Maeva Ediciones, [2017] 9788417108267
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