Strathmore’s new art-themed book club invites you to dawdle in Delft with Vermeer, explore the mystery behind Girl With a Pearl Earring, relive the Renaissance through the eyes of Artemisia Gentileschi in The Passion of Artemisia, and get a new perspective on Leonardo, Michelangelo, Monet, and many more. Explore the fictions of your favorite artists, turning the pages of both popular and lesser-known novels, then join fellow readers and art enthusiasts one Wednesday night a month to discuss forgotten painters, mysterious art heists, and miraculous recoveries of masterpieces. Each evening provides an examination of the factual background along with the fiction.

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2017-2018 Dates:

Sept 20: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Oct 18: Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey
Nov 22: The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Dec: holiday break, no book club
Jan 17: Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell
Feb 21: The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
March 21: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
April 18: The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
May 16: Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling
June 20: Blindspot by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
July 18: The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant