BOOK RECS

Recent books from my reading list: Just finished The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland, a historical fiction novel about Artemisia Gentileschi, a female artist in the male-dominated Baroque Age. This is the 2nd book by Susan Vreeland, whom I look forward to reading more of. I seem to be finding a lot of really great books about painters lately. Her first book, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, is the amazing tracing of one painting, suspected to be an unknown Vermeer, from modern times back to the artist, through the hands of its owners, and how it moved and influenced each...