The Color Storm, Damian Dibben
The Color Storm, Damian Dibben
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The Color Storm
A Novel of Renaissance Venice

Author: Damian Dibben

Narrator: Ben Allen

Unabridged: 14 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2022


Synopsis

Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death…

Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione “Zorzo” Barbarelli’s career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the color 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 favor. 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 palazzi.

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?

Atmospheric and suspenseful and filled with the famous artists of the era, The Color Storm is an intoxicating story of art and ambition, love and obsession.

About Damian Dibben

DAMIAN DIBBEN is the creator of the internationally acclaimed children’s book series the History Keepers, translated into 26 languages in over 40 countries. Previously, he worked as a screenwriter, and actor, on projects as diverse as The Phantom of the Opera and Puss in Boots and Young Indiana Jones. He lives, facing St Paul’s Cathedral, on London’s Southbank with his partner Ali and dog Dudley.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Olga on September 04, 2023

Opowieść o wielkiej sztuce i wielkiej tajemnicy. Damian Dibben odkrywa przed czytelnikami świat wielkich, rozchwytywanych artystów początków epoki renesansu. Pozwala poznać stosunki panujące między artystami, ukazuje ich ludzkie strony, możliwe charaktery. I tak genialny da Vinci jawi się jako nieco......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie (Bookfever) on November 03, 2022

"Color. It's all color," says Zorzo. "That's where it begins and ends. Venetians understand. Color is mood, love, sorrow, life. Color is what the world is built of." There are quite a few words in a synopsis where when I see them I just can't resist reading the book and one of those words is Renaissa......more

Goodreads review by Ferhora on October 27, 2024

Skończyłam czytać o drugiej w nocy, bo końcówka mnie zassała. Już myślałam, że książka skończy się spokojnie, przewidywalnie, wręcz mdło, tymczasem cóż to była za puenta! Kompletnie się nie spodziewałam. W jednej chwili książka ze spokojnej zrobiła się przykra. Dosłownie złamała mi serce. Zorzo (Gio......more

Goodreads review by Helen on June 15, 2022

Damian Dibben’s previous novel, Tomorrow, was a fascinating and unusual story of an immortal dog searching for his master across two centuries (it was better than it sounds, honestly!). I was curious to see what his next book, The Colour Storm, would be like, but it turns out that it’s a much more c......more

Goodreads review by Annette on November 13, 2022

I’ve read a lot of historical fiction but none set in Venice. For that reason I wanted to read this book. For me it starts slow . There were some interesting parts and I wasn’t quite expecting the ending. Thanks to the publisher for the gifted copy......more