Bardzo marna literatura. Użycie do tak pośledniego opowiadania nazwiska tak dobrego malarza wydaje się pewnego rodzaju nadużyciem. Pomysł na tę opowieść może nawet ciekawy ale literacko wypada to wyjątkowo słabo. Strata czasu.
I love when I find new historical author that I can really enjoy. The toilet of Venus was Spanish painter Diego Velázquez's most famous painting. Painting a nude during the inquisition was risky at best and could lead to death for both the model and the painter. Mujica did such a wonderful job por...
Who is Venus? I enjoyed finding out who she really is! Here's my full review over on my blog Guiltless Reading
Thank you to TLC Book Tours for providing me with a PDF of this book. This review is also posted on my blog, Rinn Reads.Narrated by the woman who posed for his portrait of Venus, this semi-biographical novel of Diego Velázquez is a wonderful piece of historical fiction. Mujica's writing flows very s...
It is a difficult book to rate. I was captivated by the multitude of emotions displayed within and yet at the same time oddly distanced from the characters and how they hurt each other and still be together.I wasn't all that drawn to the book when I started reading this, but then I gave it my attent...