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
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
May Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham
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
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland