Giulia filled every moment with work, in the workshop when she was needed and at her easel when she was not. She had a painting to finish, and Bernardo to forget. With each new day she saw her foolishness more clearly. He’d never been her friend, for the boy he thought he knew was a figment. He c...
In the workshop, Giulia and Angela began gessoing a pair of panels for the private commission that would follow completion of the San Giustina altarpiece. Lucida gave another dinner party. Perpetua’s bad tooth became infected and one side of her face swelled up like a water skin. Despite her pain...