African Venus bookworm
I won this book from Goodreads It seemed to be written for a younger audience high school maybe I felt like there was story to be told and the ending felt very hasty Cover art needs some work it s badly pixelated An interesting story about a lovely piece of art Paperback Princess Nima only daughter of the King is targeted to get back at the King because of the slave trade The Princess is kidnapped and shipped to France There she meets an artist Charles Cordier who likes to sculpt the beautiful things people he sees Nima is sent to pose for him The imagined story is of the woman who posed for the African Venus. African venuslaan eindhoven I loved the story After seeing the sculpture and reading the book you feel that it all actually happened and fall in love with it Paperback
The comfort of the Royal Palace would be disrupted when Princess Nima is abducted from the home in 1847 Her kidnapping is motivated by vengeance against her Father who has destroyed villages and sent hundreds into slavery Nima would be transported against her will travel to France and work in the wealthy household of her captor She meets a French Artist who is in the anti slavery movement in France This is the story of how he captures her beauty for the world to see Its May 1st 1851 and its opening day at The Great Exhibition Queen Victoria cuts the ribbon and enters the exhibition She purchases the African Venus It instantly becomes one of Charles Cordier s most famous pieces African Venus
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