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Sargent's Women

Four Lives Behind the Canvas

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Sargent's Women

De: Donna M. Lucey
Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
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With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives.

Sequestered in a fantasy-land castle in the remote Rocky Mountains, Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild - beautiful, commanding, and poison-tongued - emerged on Sargent's canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister Lucia into an ill-fated life in art; shrewd, iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. Born to unimaginable wealth, these women lived on an operatic scale, and their letters and diaries create a rich depiction of the Gilded Age and the acclaimed but secretive painter whose canvases defined the era.

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This is a well-written story about the lives of women of the Gilded Age who all had their portraits painted by Sargent. The author has done an excellent job of wading through masses of primary documents to give us an intimate portrait of a unique period in history. Unfortunately, the quality of the narration undercuts the writing as the operative approach to the narration is melodramatic and is frustrating to listen to. There is a dismissiveness towards the women inherent in the narration that manifests itself in the officious way in which the narrator chooses to express the heartfelt experiences expressed by these women in their letters and diaries. In other words, the narration makes the writing sound like a soap opera and does not do justice to the poignancy of what is being expressed. Yes, these women lived in an age of excess, but their stories do not deserve to be minimized by the overall tone taken by the narrator. I listened to it all and now intend to buy it in hardcover to have the portraits present as the stories are being told and to reread it without the narrator’s voice in my head.

Fascinating Book / Wrong Narrator

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This ends up being more about the gilded age than the art, but I found it fascinating. The downside was the narrator who almost seemed to be making fun of either the people or the book. After a while I grew accustomed to her, but maybe the next time around she could camp it up less. Also this audio book needs a pdf of the portraits...

Great portrait of the gilded age

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I wanted to like this so much more but I kept getting distracted by the narrator’s inflections, style and character voices. A bit too over the top.

Difficult to get past the narration.

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…but could get bogged down and tedious. And the narrator, whenever reading a quote, used a different cartoon-character voice. It was not a bad book, just not a riveting book.

Interesting…

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Learning more these days about Sargent this note only adds to that body but provides even more about this age and this contemporaries. Well done

Detail of the Age

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Donna M. Lucey's book illustrates the lives of the women in some of Sargent's most popular portraits. I especially loved learning about Isabella Stewart Gardner and her unique relationship with Sargent. A must-read (or must-listen, rarher) for those interested in the Gilded Age and the powerful families who patronized Sargent and established his reputation while simultaneously using his output to burnish their legacies. My only complaint is that some (but not all) of the French and Italian words are pronounced incorrectly in the reading.

The Gilded Age Comes Alive Through Portraiture

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Well written interesting stories that often refer to paintings and photographs that we cannot see. Not a fan of the narration but didn't put me off. Buy the hardcover for a more involved experience.

Buy the hardcover

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are true. The narrator is professional, but she seemed to think that she was playing the part of a Gilded Age matron. Not a disaster, but occasionally irritating. Therefore four biographies of four of Sargent’s subjects and some were more interesting than others. Most was said about Isabella Stewart Gardner, but that was my least favorite. The author got into some interesting diaries and if you love Sargent, it is interesting to learn more about the sitters. One of my least favorite Sargent portraits is of Elsie Palmer; from the book you get some context. And the same is true of all the biographies.

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I really enjoyed listening to this, I didn't actually expect much, and was really surprised. a little bit of Sergeant's paintings and 80% the different women and their lives, and how they might have overlapped later on with Sergeant's life. wonderful read. I hope I define more books like this.

a great mix of art, history and biography

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I expected the lives of these women to be filled with intrigue, excitement, or challenges. I found myself skipping chapters because they became so boring.

Bust for a big Sargent fan!

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