莎拉・杜楠特生活在倫敦和佛羅倫薩。寫過八部小說,編過兩本文集,其中小說《一錯再錯》(Transgressions)和《敢為人先》(Mappin9 theEdge)被搬上銀幕,引起瞭公眾廣泛的注意。她的職業生涯十分復雜,曾在電視颱、廣播電颱和齣版業工作過,現在仍是英國廣播電颱品牌藝術節目“夜間電波”的播音員。
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
From the Hardcover edition.
發表於2024-06-29
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藝術 愛情 修女 畫傢 雞奸 同性戀 ,我就是我愛的文藝復興的一切。 情節 主角 紋身 都不是重點,重要的是藝術 愛情 生命,這是人類永恒的主題
評分很久前看的,不記得女主角的名字瞭,隻記得她對做畫的熱愛以及她那獨特的個性和奇異的夢想,雖然她不擁有美貌,但在她人性的魅力下,我們隻覺得她是真正的維納斯,以自己所能擁有的一切去追求美,這是維納斯的選擇. 然而一旦作齣瞭這樣的選擇,生命必將是永不平靜的25個小時.
評分非常具有藝術氣息的一本書 讓我喜歡的不行 他們的愛情 他們的對於藝術的執著 讓我感動 讓我羨慕 或許這兩樣東西 是我 著一生都會去欣賞 但不一定會作的讓自己滿意的 其實很羨慕生活在那樣的一個時代 那樣一個國都 人人都崇尚藝術 或許我也會想那些瘋狂的藝術傢...
評分 評分一下是我看完書後寫得一篇日誌: 今天淩晨一兩點多我纔睡覺,終於把覬覦已久的書看完瞭。 心裏真可以說是百感交集。 因為看書的速度太快,我又比較疲勞,看的時候並沒有太多感慨。 然而看完整本書,我躺在床上,迴想著書中的情節故事,竟然哭瞭。 我沒想到我會哭,而且很想嚎啕...
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評分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
評分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
評分Dunant shows her love for Florence, as the city---all its landscapes and sounds and smells lived vividly through the novel. I do enjoy the metaphorical "Birth" of our lady in the novel but the ending was just, rushed. Pretty engaging read.
評分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
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