FICTION, BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY and ART HISTORY



FICTION, BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY and ART HISTORY

Chevalie, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring (fiction; the story of the artist Vermeer and his model which evokes 17th century Amsterdam)

Graves, Robert I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (historical fiction; fascinating story of intrigue, murder, sex, and gossip)

Claudius the God (historical fiction; a sequel to above)

Green, Peter The Greco-Persian Wars (non-fiction)

Harris, Robert Pompeii (historical fiction; a mystery and the last days of Pompeii before its destruction in the year 79)

Hughes, Ted Tales from Ovid (a new–1997--and terrific translation of Roman mythology as written by the ancient Roman poet Ovid)

Moggach, Deborah Tulip Fever (fiction; love in Baroque Holland)

Pressfield, Steven Gates of Fire (historical fiction; Greeks versus Persians at the battle of Thermopylae)

Tides of War: A Tale of Alcibiades and the Peloppensian War (historical fiction)

Stone, Irving Lust for Life (fictional biography of Vincent van Gogh)

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo (fictional biography of Michelangelo)

Vidal, Gore Julian (historical fiction; the nephew of Constantine tries to restore paganism to the Roman Empire)

OUT OF THE ORDINARY MUSEUMS

Frederic R. Weisman Gallery 265 N. Carolwood Drive, Beverly Hills

Reservations required (310) 277-5321

(Modern art in a Beverly Hills home)

Museum of Jurassic Technology 9341 Venice Blvd., Culver City

(310) 836-6131

(This is what museums used to look like; from drawings on grains of rice to trailer art)

Skirball Cultural Center 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles

(310) 440-4500

(Exhibitions, films, concerts and more

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