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Author Event for I Am Venus

Joshua Canzona, Neighbor

Barnes & Noble - Bethesda hosts an author event with Georgetown Professor Bárbara Mujica.

In this breathtaking historical novel the acclaimed author of the bestselling Frida reimagines the dramatic life and loves of the Baroque Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for The Rokeby Venus, his only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist’s rise to prominence, set against the backdrop of political turmoil and romantic scandal during the height of the Spanish Inquisition.

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