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Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death -- or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off ayers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent -- and about Lipton herself.

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• Full title: Alias Olympia
• Subtitle: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
• Author: Eunice Lipton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780801486098
• ISBN: 0801486092
• ID: 04707836
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 222 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 139 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. January 1999

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