Picture girls. Matveeva A.

Anna Matveeva - a prose writer, the finalist of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana, the author of the novels “every hundred years”, “Dyatlov pass, or the secret of nine”, “Envious sense of faith Stenina”, collections “Katya is going to Sochi ”,“ Nine nineties ”,“ Lolotta and other Parisian stories ”,“ Hidden rivers ”. In the book “Picture Girls” Anna Matveeva turns to the fate of the field workers and muses of famous artists.

who were women who look at us from the paintings of Botticelli and Bryullov, Matisse, Rubens and Mana? They lived in different centuries, had different origin and such unlike characters; Some of them did not want to give in to the great portraits in skill, and someone was enough to be just next to them.

“My heroines are not always in the full sense of the word of the model, they are girls with paintings, "Picture Girls." The fate of each of them is inextricably linked with the fate of the master, and talking about Fornarin, one cannot help but talk about Raphael, and the story of Olga Khokhlova will not do without Picasso; Botticelli could become a completely different artist without his Simonetta, Rembrandt - without Saskia, and Modigliani - without Jeanne. ” (Anna Matveeva)