![]() ![]() ![]() Her books have been translated into more than 26 languages. Tiffany” (2011), about the artist behind the leaded-glass lamps. Six more books followed, including “The Passion of Artemisia” in 2002, about an Italian Baroque painter “Luncheon of the Boating Party” (2007), about Renoir and “Clara and Mr. “True, too, to Vermeer’s legacy, she creates art that brings a unique pleasure into the lives of ordinary readers.” “True to the spirit of Vermeer, Vreeland uses art as a vehicle for capturing special moments in the lives of ordinary people,” Booklist said in its review. “Girl in Hyacinth Blue,” which traces a purported Vermeer painting across the centuries and through the lives of the people who owned it, was published in 1999, while the author was battling lymphoma. Her first novel, “What Love Sees,” told the story of Forrest and Jean Holly, a blind couple who raised four children on a ranch in Ramona. ![]() Full obituary (Tina Fineberg / Associated Press) His informed yet accessible prose led many laymen to read his books as their introduction to religions of the East and West. It was reissued as “The World’s Religions” in 1991 and has sold about 2 million copies. A scholar of world religions, Smith is best known for his work “The Religions of Man,” first published in 1958. ![]()
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