The Colour Storm: The compelling and spellbinding story of art and betrayal in Renaissance Venice

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Read this extraordinary, award-winning tale of colour, art, life, love and dangerous obsession now.

Listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, The Color Storm (2022) is a novel of Renaissance Venice by Damian Dibben.Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man's wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchant's favour. Instead he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that stretches across Europe and a marriage coming apart inside one of the city's most illustrious palazzos. the impact matrix – showing the combination of the level of impact forecast and the likelihood of those impacts occurring. I was captivated from the beginning. Ornate, vivid, deeply coloured, and so precise I could smell and taste the world Rachel Joyce An engaging thriller and a compelling exploration of a Damian Dibben is a best-selling British author. His novels have been translated into 27 languages, in over 40 countries. His latest, THE COLOUR STORM, a love story and thriller set in the art world of the renaissance, is published by MichaelJoseph/Penguin in the UK in June 2022 and HarperCollins in the US this September. Damian Dibben’s previous novel, Tomorrow, was a fascinating and unusual story of an immortal dog searching for his master across two centuries (it was better than it sounds, honestly!). I was curious to see what his next book, The Colour Storm, would be like, but it turns out that it’s a much more conventional historical novel this time. It's also a very good one!

Anyone that knows me, knows I love all things Italian, especially the food, and the fact that this is set in a place I have always wanted to visit, Venice, made it just that much better.These impacts can include damage to property, travel delays and cancellations, loss of water supplies, power cuts and, in the most severe cases, bring a danger to life. It is 1510, the height of the Venetian Renaissance. Giorgione Barbarelli—known as Zorzo—is a young painter, fired by ambition but on the verge of bankruptcy. When a fabulously wealthy German merchant arrives in Venice amid rumours of a previously unknown pigment and a lucrative new commission, Zorzo senses the opportunity for both fame and fortune. However, as he gets to know Sybille, the merchant’s wife, he finds himself drawn into danger, intrigue, and passion. Jednym z najbardziej fascynujących aspektów tej książki jest jej zdolność do przenoszenia czytelnika w różne epoki historyczne i miejsca na całym świecie. Autor jest mistrzem opisu, jego słowa tworzą pejzaże i krajobrazy, które można niemalże dotknąć. Czytelnik zostaje zanurzony w renesansowej Florencji, w tajemniczej atmosferze Wenecji, i w błyskotliwym Paryżu. Impress him, and Zorzo could acquire the most coveted colour in the world - and write his name in history. Damian Dibben is the creator of the internationally acclaimed children's book series the History Keepers, translated into 26 languages in over 40 countries. Previously, he worked as a screenwriter, and actor, on projects as diverse as The Phantom of the Opera and Puss in Boots and Young Indiana Jones. He lives, facing St Paul's Cathedral, on London's Southbank with his partner Ali and dog Dudley.