Word: chevalierã
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Griet’s poignant gaze captivates the 17th-century Dutch painter and Chevalier??s readers alike. Yet before there was a Griet to challenge the muse’s expected passivity, there was a spirited Huguenot peasant called Isabelle...
...Virgin Blue,” Chevalier??s under-recognized literary debut—published in Britain in 1997 but not released in this country until 2003—tells the dual narratives of 16th-century Isabelle Tournier and her modern-day descendant, Boston-bred Ella Turner, two women who are linked by a haunting family secret...
...novel’s quotation from Goethe’s “Theory of Colors” indicates the genesis of Chevalier??s characteristically cerebral style: “As yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with...
Ella has learned from her research that the blue color in her dream is that of the precious lapis lazuli pigment used in Renaissance paintings to emphasize the Virgin’s miraculous agency. And as the color recurs throughout Chevalier??s novel, it becomes a motif for Isabella’s and Ella’s own searches for agency...
...novel with a final incarnation of the color blue. Isabelle is at a crossroads, questioning whether to go forward, back, or remain where she is. A“blue light surrounds her, giving her solace for the briefest moment.” Blue ultimately represents the ability of Chevalier??s luminous prose to capture the beauty of the fleeting moments in her heroines’ lives...