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The interconnecting journeys of Adria Bernardi's characters begin in a remote sixteenth-century Apennine village, continuing through terrains of both privilege and privation to the Tuscan plains, and on to the household of the artist Titian. Their stories explore a range of responses by several classes of citizens dealing with similar life-and-death issues. Bernardi's attention to detail, such as the exact method of preparing ultramarine pigment, is seductive and lovely - one believes in the characters and in their stories.
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim. 6 figs. LC 00-23151
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"Spare, elegant, passionate, and brilliant, The Day Laid on the Altar, like Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower, drops us deftly into the heart of another time and place. Throughout several decades of the 16th century, in Venice, Florence, and a mountain village, the struggle to make art and life and wonder out of the bleakness, plague, and hunger streams through characters ranging from an unlettered, visionary shepherd to the painter Titian, his family, and his servants. Adria Bernardi inhabits with equal grace the hearts and minds of men and women, knaves and saints, and artists and beggars, and in the process has made a novel as moving and precisely detailed as any of the paintings she so beautifully describes." -- Andrea Barrett, Judge
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- PublisherUniv Pr of New England
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1584650443
- ISBN 13 9781584650447
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
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