Alias Olympia
Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton
English | Jan. 21, 1999 | ISBN: 0801486092 | 192 Pages | PDF | 21 MB
English | Jan. 21, 1999 | ISBN: 0801486092 | 192 Pages | PDF | 21 MB
Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death―or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether?