ELIZABETH HICKEY

Viena 1886: en la elegante urbe centroeuropea, una chiquilla de 12 años, Emile Flöge, conoce al carismático y controvertido pintor Gustav Klimt. El artista introduce a Emilie en el mundo de la bohemi

En la Viena cosmopolita y elegante de 1886, Emilie, de doce años, conoce al carismático pintor Gustav Klimt, uno de los genios del siglo XX. El artista la introduce en los ambientes bohemios de la capital austriaca y entre ellos surge una relación apasionada, marcada por el secreto y la sensualidad, que perdurará en los momentos de triunfo y también en los de escándalo y tragedia.

Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siecle Austriaand the subject of the film Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirrentakes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric historical novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter and Emilie Floge, the woman who posed for his masterpiece The Kiss, and whose name he uttered with his dying breath.Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafes, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It is here where the twelve-year-old Emilie meets the controversial libertine and painter. Hired by her bourgeois father for basic drawing lessons, Klimt introduces Emilie to a subculture of dissolute artists, wanton models, and decadent patrons that both terrifies and inspires her. The Painted Kiss follows Emilie as she blossoms from a naive young girl to one of Europes most exclusive couturiersand Klimts most beloved model and mistress. A provocative love story that brings to life Viennas cultural milieu, The Painted Kiss is as compelling as a work by Klimt himself.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Painted Kiss, a lush and enchanting (Brenda Rickman Vantrease, author of The Illuminator) story of the love triangle between craftsman William Morris, artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the archetype for pre-Raphaelite beauty, Jane Burden.I apologize again for my boldness, but I must tell you that youre the most beautiful girl in Oxford. Maybe in all of England. I have to put you in my painting. With these words, the scandalous, wildly talented painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti changes seventeen-year-old Jane Burdens life forever. Janes gaunt, awkward figure and grave expression had cemented her reputation as the ugliest girl in Oxford. Raised by a stableman in the towns most sordid and despicable slum, Jane is nearly resigned to marry in-kind. But when she meets Rossetti at the theater, he sees beyond her worn, ill-fitting dress and unruly hair and is stirred by her unconventional beauty. The charismatic painter whisks Jane into Oxfords exclusive art scene as his muse, and during the long and intimate hours of modeling, Jane finds herself falling in love. When Rossetti abruptly leaves Oxford with no plans to return, brokenhearted Jane settles for a stable, if passionless, marriage to his soft-spoken protege William Morristhe man who would go on to become the father of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Jane resigns herself to life as a respectable wife and mother, exchanging the slop bucket for intricate needlepoint, willing away the memories of Rossetti and what could have been. But Rossetti and Jane are inextricably bound together by tragedy, art, and desire, and no amount of time or distance can separate them. Ultimately this complicated arrangement with which Jane, Morris, and Rossetti must learn to live threatens to undo them all. Richly textured and deftly portrayed, The Wayward Muse is a compelling portrait of the ever-changing notions of both love and beauty.

S#lo los artistas pudieron comprender su belleza. Por una llamativa languidez que contrasta con su cabellera negra y la excepcional rareza de sus rasgos, Jane Burden sufre el vituperio constante de los vecinos de Holywell Street, uno de los barrios m#s deprimidos del Oxford victoriano. El destino, no obstante, le permitir# conocer al apasionado pintor italiano Dante Gabriel Rossetti, que acabar# transform#ndola en todo un modelo de la belleza prerrafaelita. De la mano del pintor, Jane ir# conociendo a importantes personalidades de la #lite cultural de la #poca que la sacar#n de los suburbios; entre ellos destacar# el adinerado William Morris, un escritor poco agraciado, fundador del British Arts & Crafts Movement. El tri#ngulo amoroso est# servido. Jane se debatir# entre la tentaci#n carnal y la estabilidad del compromiso, pendiente del hilo de amistad que une a estos dos artistas, a la vez que ascender# socialmente hasta convertirse en un icono de la moda inglesa.

El destino de la humilde Jane cambia cuando es descubierta por el pintor Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Se convertirá en su modelo, musa y amante. Pero éste la abandona y la joven acepta con reticencias casarse con el protegido del pintor. Los tres se ven envueltos en un triangulo amoroso del que dificilmente podran escapar.