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...Sarah Dunant...
...Sarah Dunant...
This new generation of art novels is different from Lust for Life (about Van Gogh) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo). Irving Stone's old blockbusters were the testosterone-laden version of art history. The central voice now is more likely to be a woman's. In Sarah Dunant's agile new novel, The Birth of Venus (Random House; 394 pages), the fictional narrator is Alessandra Cecchi, 14, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in the Florence of Michelangelo and Botticelli. Alessandra yearns to live with a brush in her hand. For that matter, she would be happy...
...absorbs her is the young painter her father has brought from Northern Europe to decorate the family chapel. For a while you wonder if this mysterious stranger will somehow turn out to be Albrecht Durer, who ventured to Italy--though not to Florence--in 1494. He doesn't, though Dunant probably wouldn't mind if you pictured Durer's liquid eyes during the scenes when the discussion of single-point perspective dissolves into the sfumato of orgasm. But however strong the scent of commercial calculation in Dunant's book--there's nothing like the Renaissance to give tone...
...stationed in the country were attacked in April. Witnesses claim a mob of about 500 Javanese who set fire to the Joint Security Committee office in Langsa arrived in army trucks. ?We believe the differences between the two sides are still not that great,? says Steve Daly, a Henry Dunant Centre spokesman. ?Nobody's packing up yet.? That kind of optimism is hard to maintain when talking stops and shooting begins...