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The Ladies-in-Waiting

2017-05-24 Art
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Release : 2017-05-24
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Ladies-in-Waiting by : Santiago Garcia

Download or read book The Ladies-in-Waiting written by Santiago Garcia. This book was released on 2017-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1656, Diego Velázquez, leading figure in the Spanish Golden Age of painting, created one of the most enigmatic works in the history of art: Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). This graphic novel, written and drawn by two of Spain’s most sophisticated comics creators, examines its legacy as one of the first paintings to explore the relationship among the viewer, reality, and unreality. (It guest stars Cano, Salvador Dalí, Zurbarán, and many others.) Olivares’s art moves from clear line to expressionistic; from pen nib to brush stokes; from one color palette to another, as The Ladies-in-Waiting uses fiction to explore the ties among artists and patrons, the past and the present, institutions and audiences, creators and creativity. Their combined efforts have garnered not only international comics prizes, but the equivalent of the National Book Award in Spain, where the book has been a commercial and critical sensation.

Lady in Waiting

2020-03-24 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2020-03-24
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 357/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lady in Waiting by : Anne Glenconner

Download or read book Lady in Waiting written by Anne Glenconner. This book was released on 2020-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner—a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed "the greatest disappointment" and unable to inherit. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact. A unique witness to landmark moments in royal history, Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret until her death in 2002, Anne's life has encompassed extraordinary drama and tragedy. In Lady in Waiting, she will share many intimate royal stories from her time as Princess Margaret's closest confidante as well as her own battle for survival: her broken-off first engagement on the basis of her "mad blood"; her 54-year marriage to the volatile, unfaithful Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner, who left his fortune to a former servant; the death in adulthood of two of her sons; a third son she nursed back from a six-month coma following a horrific motorcycle accident. Through it all, Anne has carried on, traveling the world with the royal family, including visiting the White House, and developing the Caribbean island of Mustique as a safe harbor for the rich and famous-hosting Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and many other politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities. With unprecedented insight into the royal family, Lady in Waiting is a witty, candid, dramatic, at times heart-breaking personal story capturing life in a golden cage for a woman with no inheritance. New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The Sunday Times Bestseller The Globe and Mail Bestseller ABA Indie Bestseller The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020

Ladies in Waiting

2002 African Americans
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Release : 2002
Genre : African Americans
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Book Rating : 177/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ladies in Waiting by : Linda Hudson-Smith

Download or read book Ladies in Waiting written by Linda Hudson-Smith. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ladies-in-Waiting

2014-07-04 Courts and courtiers
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Release : 2014-07-04
Genre : Courts and courtiers
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Book Synopsis Ladies-in-Waiting by : Victoria Sylvia Evans

Download or read book Ladies-in-Waiting written by Victoria Sylvia Evans. This book was released on 2014-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of what life was like in the Tudor Court for ladies in waiting and other attendants to the Queens of the House of Tudor.

Ladies in Waiting

2004 History
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Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ladies in Waiting by : Anne Somerset

Download or read book Ladies in Waiting written by Anne Somerset. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune and flaunted her hold over King Charles I. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, including the diaries of such shrewd onlookers as Lady Cowper and Fanny Burney, bestselling author Anne Somerset provides a guide to the character, profligate or pious, of each court. This lively combination of entertaining anecdote and searching analysis is social history at its most colorful. .,."provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material..."--"The New York Times"

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