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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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Gabriel Allon ; 12
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English
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Ex-Israeli intelligence agent Gabriel Allon is in Rome when he's asked by his friend Monsignor Luigi Donati, the private secretary to Pope Paul VII, to investigate a death at the Vatican. The victim--a beautiful woman--is thought to have committed suicide, but Allon soon learns that she had been harboring a deadly secret.
3) Alena
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"A contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier's gripping and iconic novel Rebecca, ALENA tells the story of a bright young curator who finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at a small, cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod"--
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"Hall's writing manages to combine acute sensitivity and daring. ... Visceral and engaging. ... The emotional lives of her characters are skillfully realized in this bright weave of disparate voices–for whom art is at once a way of seeing and a way of life." —The Times (London)
The lives of four individuals—a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator—intertwine across nearly
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Walker
Pub. Date
1987.
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English
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Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to assist in mounting a sensational exhibit: The Plundered Past?twenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis, thought for decades to be lost forever, and only recently rediscovered. But things quickly get out of hand when Chris?s patrician, fastidious boss, after sensing a forgery in the lot, turns up dead the very next day?on the steps of a dismal Frankfurt brothel, of...
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On Central Park ; 1
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English
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"With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"--
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Charles Scribner's
Pub. Date
[1993]
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English
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It is the kind of news that would normally send champagne corks flying at the Seattle Art Museum. A famous French art collector wants to give the museum an original Rembrandt! So why isn't Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, smiling? Perhaps because the gift seems too good to be true. And there are conditions that make Chris nervous: The collector is the elderly Rene Vachey, one of the world's more controversial eccentrics. The...
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St. Martin's Press
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1996.
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English
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In New York, the opening night of a Botticelli art exhibition is attended by Isobel Cattaneo, direct descendant of the woman Botticelli used as a model for his famous painting, The Birth of Venus. For curator Mike Manship her presence is a major coup, but a killer is on the loose and he is after her.
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2021]
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English
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"The second ten sensational part season of Riviera sees Georgina focused on trying to get away with murder as she gets to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. This intoxicating drama is full of sun, sex, sea, fast cars, fast living, chateaus and everything that says the glamour of the rich and powerful. Picking up immediately from the shocking ending of season one, with the Clios family still...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A year has passed since the explosive finale of Riviera Season Two. Georgina has abandoned the Riviera and reinvented herself as Georgina Ryland. She has partnered up with charismatic art restitution expert, Gabriel Hirsch, and together they scour the world for stolen artworks. However, when Gabriel con scates an artifact from a corrupt dealer, this catapults them into a dangerous conspiracy. From Venice, they travel to Saint-Tropez and Buenos Aires...
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Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2017.
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English
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"An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he turned the spotlight on a new generation of West Coast artists. Ferus was also the first gallery ever to show Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and was shut down by the L.A. vice squad for a show of Wallace Berman's edgy art....
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Random House
Pub. Date
1974.
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English
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The Metropolitan Museum acquires a chalice through a European art dealer. Soon an English archaeologist claims it was stolen from him. The dealer, when pressed, says that he bought it from a collector in Corsica. The museum's curator of classical art secretly flies to Europe in hope of finding the truth.
17) The wedding veil
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Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"After three friends from college find a wedding veil said to unite its bearer with their true love, the friend who takes the veil, an art museum curator, begins to investigate the origin of a long-lost painting with a new board member while preparing for an upcoming gala."--
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"While men have long been credited with producing the first abstract paintings, the true creator was actually a woman - Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who was inspired by her mystic visions. Acclaimed authors Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, and M.J. Rose bring her story to life in this groundbreaking novel. Early 1900s: The world belongs to men, and the art world in Stockholm, Sweden, is no different, until Hilma af Klint brings together a mysterious...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Heartbroken and alone, Boston art curator Sarah West is grieving the recent deaths of her parents and the end of her marriage. Ultrasensible by nature, she's determined to stay the course to get her life back on track. But fate has something else in mind. While cleaning out her father's closet, she finds a letter from the famous Parisian courtesan Marthe de Florian, dated 1895. The subject, Sarah's great-great-aunt Louisa's death. Legend has it Louisa...
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