The wedding

By Elizabeth M. Rees

Subjects: Eyck, Jan van, in fiction, Spies, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Artists in fiction, Netherlands, fiction, Fathers and daughters, Arranged marriage, Europe in fiction, Spies in fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Artists, fiction, Courts and courtiers, Juvenile fiction, Arranged marriage in fiction, Courts and courtiers in fiction, Europe, History, Artists

Description: In 1433, fourteen-year-old Giovanna Cenami falls in love with a mysterious stranger employed by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, but when she defies her father, refuses to must marry a wealthy family friend, and elopes with her love, her reputation, her family's honor, and her very life are at stake.