num_pages: 192
description: Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death―or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective story with the revelatory power of art, peeling off layers of lies to reveal startling truths about Victorine Meurent―and about Lipton herself.
language: English
title: Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
titlecomplete: Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
genres: History, Biography, Art History, Victorian, Womens Studies, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 164
publisher: Cornell University Press