A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism

In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his original vision. Although close to starvation when he invented impressionism on the banks of the Seine in the 1860s-70s, in the following decades he emerged as the powerful leader of the new pain...

THE FIVE OF US IN ROME is the delightful story told by a young girl who arrives in Rome in 1892 almost five years old and who leaves in 1896 just nine years old. The story received the prize of the best book for girls in 1928 in Holland.

The girl's father is an art painter who rents an atelier and family living quarters in the Villa Strohl-Fern, a mansion full with other artists, situated in a lush park close to Villa Borghese and the Academies of Art. Nations had the Prix de Rome for their ...