Girl in a Green Gown
The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait
- Published: 1 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781446485903
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
A brilliantly idiosyncratic investigation which alternates chapters internal to the picture (the fashions, the furniture, the oranges, the mirror) with chapters on its production and historical meanderings
Lynn Roberts, Tablet
An author who opens our eyes, deepens our understanding and makes us keen to look again
Frances Spalding, Daily Mail
Engaging
Gillian Tindal, Literary Review
Exploring the double portrait in revelatory detail, Hicks presents a truly inspiring picture of her own
The Times
Exploring the double-portrait image in often revelatory detail, Hicks presents a truly inspiring picture of her own
Erica Wagner, The Times, Books of the Year
Hicks tells a truly fascinating story about image and ownership, based on diligent, well-digested research
Vera Ryan, Irish Times
Hicks writes effortlessly, with a vast amount of information at her fingertips
Jerry Brotton, BBC History Magazine
I was bowled over... It is a book of page-turning vignettes
Daily Telegraph
Meticulously weaving an analysis of the portrait with chapters devoted to political and social history
Fisun Guner, Metro
No-one can write, and explain, like Hicks. Here her mastery is complete
Spectator
The book has sent me back to the painting...with wider and more inquisitive eyes
Peter Conrad, Observer
There are still interesting things to be said about Van Eyck's great double portrait
Michael Glover, Independent, Books of the Year
This beautifully written book is a splendid testament to the intelligence, attention to detail, depth of research, and down to earth vision of a first rate scholar
Theodore K Rabb, Times Literary Supplement
This impressive work of art historical scholarship is in every way as engaging as its subject
Peter Murray, Irish Examiner