W. Somerset Maugham 
De Amicitia and The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian 

De Amicitia is about an American art student and English poet living in Paris, and what transpires during their summer trip to Holland. 

The Punctiliousness of Don Sebastian tells the story behind the alabaster monument of Don Sebastian and his wife. 

Art Fiction is a literary genre in which art is not solely an object, but is a reflection of what is human in all of us. Other examples are:

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Glimpses of Gauguin by Maryann D’Agincourt

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Printz by Maryann D’Agincourt

May Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

Shade and Light by Maryann D’Agincourt

The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

The Real Thing by Henry James

The Gold Finch by Donna Tartt

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Journal of Eva Morelli by Maryann D’Agincourt

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

A Painter of Our Time by John Berger

The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland