Alias Olympia
Author | : Eunice Lipton |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0801468248 |
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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? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent—and about Lipton herself.