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The Color Storm

von Damian Dibben

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Renaissance Venice is a furnace of ideas and ambition. Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary colour. Yet artist Giorgione 'Zorzo' Barbarelli's career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumour of a mysterious, other-worldly new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the colour 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 favour. 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 palazzos. 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?… (mehr)
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We take colour for granted nowadays. We can have our cars in all sorts of colours and finishes, the walls of our houses and the plants in our gardens. There are books about the history of colour: I particularly enjoyed The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair and these start to give us a glimpse into the world of passion about colour. Imagine it is 1510 and colours are rare and expensive. Ultramarine is a sort after colour but there are rumours of another colour found in mines far away that has never been used before. The Colour Storm is about how far one artist, Giorgione Barbarelli or Zorzo, would go to get this new colour, prince orient. Dibben has written a very interesting article about the introductions of new colours and how it can upset the balance when people make the colour their own even today. You can read it here.

Artsists start to appear in Venice as word of the new colour spreads as does Jakob and Sybille Fugger, one of the richest men in Europe, a miner and banker in whose mines the colour was found. Zorzo befriends Sybille and is allowed to paint her portrait and this is his entrée into the household which he hopes will gain him a contract to paint the inside of a new church and access to the prince orient.

The characters in the book are real ones, it is the story woven around them that is fictional. Zorzo falls in love with Sybille, that part is quite predictable, but the character Sybille is more interesting as is her relationship with her brother and husband. I wouldn't say that colour is woven throughout the writing but it is definitely there when describing Sybille and her moods through her dress.

The phrase opens up Zorzo's head again and panic tumbles out.

Sybille Fugger: silver gown, ivory face, carnelian lips, malachite room.
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There are other strands woven into the story such as the plague which was so prevalent during those times as well as a rumour about the 'Inquisition' being rolled out around the world, funded by a very rich person and backed by Rome.

You do get an insight into art during these times with Zorzo explaining where colours come from to Sybille and how he starts a painting - from the inside out to capture the person or from the outside in to try and capture the atmosphere and mood. And there are snippets where his passion for colour squeezes out.

'Colours took me over. Completely. I volunteered for every job that would teach me more about them. I hurried around all the pharmacists and vendecolori of the city, comparing materials, inspecting, touching, smelling, turning everything to the light. Even the names of materials seemed to have this enchanted quality: porphyry, malachite, verdigris. Like names from mythology. I wondered how I'd managed to take it all for granted until then. An example: do you know there are about a hundred different yellows?'
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The book is marketed as a thriller and the role of the plague and a flood act as devices to heighten the sense of panic and need for speed. Everything is closing in and something has got to give.

I really enjoyed the art world side of this book, the relationship between Sybille and Zorzo less so. I didn't feel it was a storm of colour, more showers - some of them quite heavy in places. For me, this book was a bit beige. I enjoyed the article about desire to own colour more. ( )
  allthegoodbooks | Aug 12, 2023 |
I really enjoyed this novel that takes place in Renaissance Venice. I enjoyed reading about the different artists and how they each used different colors and techniques to create their art. I really liked Zorzo. I thought that Sybilla was a very interesting character that me quite intrigued. I loved the use of colors throughout the story. I received a copy of this book from the publisher for a fair and honest opinion that I gave of my own free will. ( )
  Virginia51 | Dec 2, 2022 |
Giorgione 'Zorzo' Barbarelli is a talented artist but one of many in competitive Venice. His debts are mounting and he needs a valuable commission to keep his studio working. When he hears of new and amazing paint colour which has just been discovered he thinks this will be the answer to his prayers. However this brings him into contact with an incredibly rich merchant and his beautiful wife, Zorzo needs the commission but is not prepared for what else he is exposed to.
Many of the characters in this book are well-known artists as Venice at this time was a centre of the arts and so Michaelangelo and Leonardo are passing characters. Giorgione is also relatively famous but this fictionalised episode is rather overwrought at times. The depictions of Venice are great, as is the sense of looming doom as the Plague approaches but the plot is a little convoluted. ( )
  pluckedhighbrow | Aug 9, 2022 |
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Renaissance Venice is a furnace of ideas and ambition. Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary colour. Yet artist Giorgione 'Zorzo' Barbarelli's career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumour of a mysterious, other-worldly new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the colour 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 favour. 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 palazzos. 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?

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