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    Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met
    Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met
    Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met
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    Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met

    By Dan Streja

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    These are stories about beautiful women, stories of love, betrayal, rejection and loss. We start with a beautiful painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and follow the thread to discover their life, portraits and lovers. A gossip book, in fact, if we look for the truth. So what does this have to do with art? First, you will see how these portraits get a new dimension if you know the cast of characters. You end up getting attached, liking these women more and seeing them as friends, with frailties and problems of all sorts. You can also see how the skill of the painter showed more than physical likeness on the canvas.
    This is a companion book to the Met Tours iPhone app.

    This is in not a production of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is not associated with it in any way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDan Streja
    Release dateJun 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301263653
    Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met
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    Dan Streja

    Dan Streja is a Director of Software Developement for an Insurance Software company, working in Scarsdale, New York. He produced an iPhone app - Met Tours, that has tours for the Metropolitan Museum, read alound by Julia Proctor. This book corresponds to four of the nine tours of the app. He also produced a second book based on the Metropolitan Museum paintings, available on Kindle: "Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met"

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      Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met - Dan Streja

      Women, Sex and Betrayal at the Met

      Dan Streja

      Copyright 2013 Dan Streja.

      Smashwords Edition

      All Rights Reserved.

      To Robina, Jill and Lynn.

      To my father, who has always been an inspiration.

      To my mother, who has always been a support.

      Prologue

      These are stories about beautiful women, stories of love, betrayal, rejection and loss. We start with a beautiful painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and follow the thread to discover their life, portraits and lovers. A gossip book, in fact, if we look for the truth. So what does this have to do with art? First, you will see how these portraits get a new dimension if you know the cast of characters. You end up getting attached, liking these women more and seeing them as friends, with frailties and problems of all sorts. You can also see how the skill of the painter showed more than physical likeness on the canvas.

      This is a companion book to the Met Tours iPhone app.

      NOTE: this book is in not produced by The Metropolitan Museum of New York, which is not associated with it in any way.

      For Each Ecstatic Instant - Emily Dickinson

      For each ecstatic instant

      We must an anguish pay

      In keen and quivering ration

      To the ecstasy.

      For each beloved hour

      Sharp pittances of years,

      Bitter contested farthings

      And coffers heaped with tears.

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Consuelo - The Love Triangle Wife

      Germaine - The Femme Fatale

      Marie-Anne - The Talented Wife

      Jeanne - The Abused Mistress

      Lizzie - The Neglected Wife

      Elizabeth - The Desirable Spinster

      Ginevra - The Prickly Heartbreaker

      Joanna - The Unappreciated Mistress

      Amelie - The Ridiculed Socialite

      Victorine - The Unabashed Lady

      Loie - ThePlumpy Dancer

      Pamela - The Dependable Sister

      Charlotte - The Unloved Sister

      Ellen - The Elusive Actress

      Consuelo -The Love Triangle Wife

      Consuelo Vanderbilt (1876–1964), Duchess of Marlborough,

      and Her Son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956)

      Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931)

      You easily recognize the name Vanderbilt. And Churchill. But who is actually this woman, sorry, this Duchess, and how come an American Vanderbilt is a Duchess of Marlborough?

      The Duchess of Marlborough, 1903

      Paul Cesar Helleu (1859 –1927)

      In her biography, The Glitter and the Gold, Consuelo Vanderbilt later described how she was required to wear a steel rod, which ran down her spine and fastened around her, to improve her

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