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.
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