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"Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate--the work...
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A thrilling story of inspiration and desire from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Colin Sullivan has a vision—the painting of his career, with Cassidy St. John as his model. She'll be a challenge to paint, with her passion for life and captivating beauty. But as Cassidy stands in front of him every day, Colin begins to realize that the real test won't be capturing her image...it'll be capturing her heart....
Colin Sullivan has a vision—the painting of his career, with Cassidy St. John as his model. She'll be a challenge to paint, with her passion for life and captivating beauty. But as Cassidy stands in front of him every day, Colin begins to realize that the real test won't be capturing her image...it'll be capturing her heart....
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"Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over one hundred paintings by the late and brilliant Randolph McInnis. Louise, known better as 'That Wykoff Woman,' was just a young apprentice when her intimate representation and the fact of the McInnis's marriage caused rumors to fly -- and Louise to hide away for decades. All of McInnis's paintings are in museums or known private collections,...
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2022.
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English
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In 1889 New York, when the city's top models begin turning up dead, one by one, society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart, drawn into the investigation by a friend, seeks answers from notorious gangsters and prominent painters to catch a killer.
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Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lily, a pious German peasant girl, has always found comfort in the Bible's Song of Songs. She clings to its joyous message of love when her father dies and she moves to Berlin to live with her strict aunt. There, she becomes the muse of aspiring sculptor Richard, and before long, their working relationship turns romantic. But Richard is a man in love with his art, leaving Lily to fall into the arms of a hedonistic baron who offers her what she now...
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Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 DVD (167 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In its continuing effort to showcase the great works of early cinema, Kino Classics, in association with the Library of Congress, launches a new series of releases dedicated to archival rarities-- influential classics that have gone virtually unseen for decades.
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2010.
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First edition.
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viii, 517 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When the painter Botticelli doesn't pay Luciana Vetra for her work as one of his models, she steals an unfinished painting. After people around her start dying--murdered by someone who wants the painting and its secrets back--Luciana goes on the run, looking for answers.
15) Exposed
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New Vessel Press
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[2019]
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v, 169 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives. Blondel evokes an intimacy of dangerous...
16) Trilby
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In the Latin Quarter of Paris, Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer, Europe's most captivating soprano. But her golden voice, and even her life, become fatally tied to him.
17) Bluebeard
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
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80th anniversary edition.
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1 Blu-ray (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bluebeard is a serial killer on the loose in Paris. He has a penchant for strangling lovely young models and surreptitiously slipping their bodies into the Seine. Two young sisters, one who has feelings for a puppeteer and another who has a boyfriend who is a police inspector, seem to be in danger.
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Isabelle d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blond and an art lover and collector. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naïve Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with...
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