Illuminated Life
Author: Ardizzone, Heidi
ISBN: 9780393051049
RM348.08
Publisher,W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight,
No. of Pages, 352
Examines the secret life of Belle de Costa Greene, who was responsible for shaping the Pierpont Morgan Library collection and who became a luminary in New York high society, describing how the daughter of free people of color invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society to take the art world by storm.
