Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siècle Austria -- and the subject of Helen Mirren’s latest film, Woman in Gold -- takes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship bet...
"I apologize again for my boldness, but I must tell you that you're the most beautiful girl in Oxford. Maybe in all of England. I have to put you in my painting." W ith these words, the scandalous, wildly talented painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti ...