num_pages: 352
description: Ben turns and grins ironically. When you stopped just now and looked at the sky you werent measuring it. You werent thinking about classical proportion. You were feeling something.Cambridge 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience of life and love.When an explosive piece of contemporary art is installed on the lawn of his college it sets in motion Dons abrupt departure from Cambridge to take up a role at a south London museum. There he befriends Ben a young artist who draws him into the anarchic 1990s British art scene and the nightlife of Soho.Over the course of one long hot summer Don glimpses a liberating new existence. But his epiphany is also a moment of self-reckoning as his oldest friendship  and his own unexamined past  are revealed to him in a devastating new light. As Dons life unravels he suffers a fall from grace that that shatters his world into pieces.
language: English
title: Tiepolo Blue
publisher: Sceptre