Laurie Lico Albanese Libri

Una giovane donna che cerca la sua libertà e un pittore che cerca la libertà del colore e della forma. Il racconto della passione, sensuale e ribelle, tra Gustav Klimt e la sua musa, Adele Bloch-Bauer. Una storia d’amore che è anche la storia di un quadro (il Ritratto di Adele Bloch-Bauer I ) che attraversa un’epoca: dalla seducente Vienna di inizio Novecento, scossa dalla rivoluzione di Freud e dai fermenti artistici della Secessione, alle devastazioni della Seconda guerra mondiale, La bellezza rubata è un’entusiasmante epopea d’amore, guerra e arte.

Isobel, a gifted needleworker with strange talents, finds herself penniless and alone in Salem. When she meets Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are drawn to each other. Together, they are dark storyteller and muse, but where will their affair lead?

Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margherita. It is here that he encounters the greatest temptation of his life, beautiful Lucrezia Buti, who has been driven to holy orders more by poverty than piety. In Lucrezia's flawless face Lippi sees the inspiration for countless Madonnas and he brings the young woman to his studio to serve as his model. But as painter and muse are united in an exhilarating whirl of artistic discovery, a passionate love develops, one that threatens to destroy them both even as it fuels some of Lippi's greatest work.