One of the finest novelists and poets writing in the Netherlands today, Anna Enquist's first novel took the Dutch and German reading public by storm. The Masterpiece takes place during three days in the life of the painter Johan Steenkamer, and of the women closest to him. Is an artist as self-absorbed as Johan capable of expressing the deepest emotional understanding through h...(展开全部)

The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. This book shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated and denigrated since the early nineteenth century. The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of a...(展开全部)

The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. This book shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated and denigrated since the early nineteenth century. The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of a...(展开全部)

Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. No one there wants anything to do with Sophie or her magnificent creations -- no one except the woman on the third floor. She's a new mother "weaving" something herself...(展开全部)

Sophie is an artist who wants to spin beautiful creations all day long and, someday, a masterpiece. As a spider, though, Sophie has a hard time finding a welcoming place in which she can be free to live and spin. She's shooed and shuffled all over Beekman's Boardinghouse until one day she finally finds the warm, comfortable, safe home for which she always yearned -- and the ins...(展开全部)

Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. No one there wants anything to do with Sophie or her magnificent creations -- no one except the woman on the third floor. She's a new mother "weaving" something herself...(展开全部)

[美] 凯瑟琳·卡利·贾利兹（Kathryn Calley Galitz） 欧洲艺术学家、作家、讲师。任职于纽约大都会艺术博物馆，负责重要国际展览的策展与艺术教育。

An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. T...(展开全部)

乔纳森•哈尔（Jonathan Harr），现居美国麻省，在史密斯学院教授非小说写作教程。自2000年开始，在罗马、都柏林与伦敦探访参与发掘《逮捕耶稣》真迹的相关人士。