The Immortal Lure

A painter means to send his beloved’s portrait through Venice in the hands of “ribald” onlookers. Then a whisper reaches Giorgione: the plague has broken out.

The Immortal Lure opens with a drama set in Renaissance Venice, where gondolas glide past Giorgione’s studio and canvases crowd the walls. The painter, stung by Isotta’s departure, would turn the image he once adored into a public humiliation; his old master, Bellini, pleads with him to stop before wounded love ruins them both. Giorgione insists his art is spent, while the news from the city darkens the room and uninvited guests approach. Across its poetic dramas, the book sets passion against restraint—but what will Giorgione do when the door opens?

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