Title: The day laid on the altar
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Painters, Renaissance Art, Fiction, History, Fiction, general, Italy, fiction, Artists, fiction