Why does he seem so familiar? And what is his connection to the great Renaissance painter? Yet as her own affair grows deeper, Tulia's sidewalk artist grows more mysterious. As he takes her on a tour of Europe's artistic treasures, she begins writing the story of the painter Raphael and his secret lover. While in Europe researching her next novel, twenty-something American Tulia Rose falls headlong into a romance with a handsome sidewalk artist. Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue She finds she must trust her own heart to make the impossible decisions that may save or ruin them all."A fantasia of a double tale skimming through the art capitals of Europe with double muses, double love pursuits, double Raphaels, even double authors, a tale dripping with idealized romantic settings, mystery, art, and a touch of magic, The Sidewalk Artist will keep readers wondering what is real and what is artifice-as fine paintings always do." But secrets and scandals breach the convent walls, and Justina learns there may be even worse fates for her than the veil, if La Diamante makes good on her threats.ĭesperate to protect herself and the ones she loves, Justina turns to Luca for help. Justina is shocked to discover how the women of the convent find their own freedom in what seems to her like a prison. It’s well known that he is in debt to both his trading partners and the most infamous courtesan in the city, La Diamante, and the pressure is closing in.Īfter arriving at the convent, Justina takes solace in her aunt Livia, one of the nuns, and in the growing knowledge that all is not strictly devout at San Zaccaria. Lord Soranzo is not acting only to protect his family. Her hopes are dashed when her father decides her younger sister, Rosa, will marry in a strategic alliance and Justina will be sent to the San Zaccaria convent, in the tradition of aristocratic daughters.
Amid this turmoil, noblewoman Justina Soranzo, just sixteen, hopes to make a rare love marriage with her sweetheart, Luca Cicogna. The displeasure of Pope Julius II is a continuing threat to the republic, as is the barely contained fighting in the countryside. In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her
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