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Title details for The Color Storm by Damian Dibben - Available

The Color Storm

A Novel of Renaissance Venice

by Damian Dibben
Ben Allen
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Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death...
Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione "Zorzo" Barbarelli's career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the color and secure his name in history.
Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man's wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchant's favor. Instead he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that stretches across Europe and a marriage coming apart inside one of the floating city's most illustrious palazzi.
As the water levels rise and the plague creeps ever closer, an increasingly desperate Zorzo isn't sure whom he can trust. Will Sybille prove to be the key to Zorzo's success or the reason for his downfall?
Atmospheric and suspenseful and filled with the famous artists of the era, The Color Storm is an intoxicating story of art and ambition, love and obsession.

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    September 6, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781488214240
      • File size: 406988 KB
      • Duration: 14:07:53

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Ben Allen fully engages listeners with this intriguing story about the art world in Renaissance Venice. Zorzo, an up-and-coming painter, stakes his life and career on his obsessive desire to obtain a mysterious color that no one has ever seen before. Allen deftly distinguishes the many interesting people of all ages who inhabit Zorzo's world. Famous artists of the period wander in and out, mixing with apprentices and various scoundrels. Allen is especially adept with his understated handling of women's voices. His voice intensifies the drama as Zorzo gets drawn into the dangerous world of the beguiling Sybille and her ruthless husband. Listeners will be as eager as Zorzo to finally encounter the wonderful new color. J.E.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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