Novels about famous artists and their creations:
I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira (Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas)
I Am Venus by Barbara Louise Mujica (Diego Velazquez)
The Secret Book Of Frida Kahlo by F.G. Haghenbeck (Frida Kahlo)
The Last Nude by Ellis Avey (Tamara de Lempicka)
Frida’s Bed by Slavenka Drakulic (Frida Kahlo)
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber (Diego Velazquez)
A Rare and Curious Gift by Pauline Holdstock (Artemisia Gentileschi)
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland (Emily Carr)
In the Casa Azul: A Novel of Revolution and Betrayal by Meaghan Delahunt (Frida Kahlo)
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland (Artemisia Gentileschi)
Burnt Umber by Sheldon Greene (Franz Marc)
Frida by Barbara Louise Mujica (Frida Kahlo)
The Dark Clue by James Wilson (J.M.W. Turner)
Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel of Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan (William Buelow Gould)
The Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker (Johannes Vermeer)
A Name in Blood by Matt Rees (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
I, Hogarth by Michael Dean (William Hogarth)
Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen (Sofonisba Anguissola)
The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals by Michael Kernan (Frans Hals)
Rainbows: A Novel in Five Parts by Wolfgang Schoellkopf (Mark Rothko and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner)
Gypsy Madonna by Santa Montefiore
The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers (Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio)
The Botticelli Secret by Marina Fiorato (Sandro Botticelli)
Madame Picasso by Anne Girand (Pablo Picasso)
Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland (Cezanne, Pissaro, Chagall and Picasso)
The World to Come by Dara Horn (Marc Chagall)
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (Michelangelo)
Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett (Han Holbein)
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman (Mary Cassatt)
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Vermeer)
The God of Spring by Arabella Edge (Theodore Gericault)
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland (Johannes Vermeer)
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell (Monet)
Girl Reading by Katie Ward (Simone Martini and Pieter Janssens Elinga)
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan (Degas)
Lust for Life by Irving Stone (Vincent van Gogh)
Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore (Toulouse-Lautrec)
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland (August Renoir)
Dancing for Degas by Kathryn Wagner (Degas)
I am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto (John Singer Sargento)
The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey (Gustav Klimt)
Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick (Vincent van Gogh)
Leaving van Gogh by Carol Wallace (Vincent van Gogh)
The Miracles of Prato by Laurie Lico Albanese (Filippo Lippi)
The Ruby Ring by Diane Haeger (Raphael)
Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex (Leonardo da Vinci)
Signora Da Vinci by Robin Maxwell
Artemisia by Alexandra Lapierre (Artemisia Gentileschi)
Tulip Fever by Deborah Maggach (Jan van Loos)
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Masuj Ono)
Zoia’s Gold by Philip Sington (Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky)
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