Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk, The Sidewalk Artist
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Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk, The Sidewalk Artist
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The Sidewalk Artist Gina Buonaguro And Janic
The Sidewalk Artist
Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk
Dunne, November 2006, $22.95
ISBN: 0312358032
New York based writer Tulia Rose seeks a subject for her next novel, so she travels to Europe for inspiration. In Paris she is amazed by a perfect sidewalk rendition of Renaissance great Raphael's heavenly angels. The street painter insists his name is also Raphael, though Tulia calls him Raffaello. They share a picnic, in which THE SIDEWALK ARTIST talks about art history, especially the Renaissance, with knowledge and passion
She is tempted to date him, but she has a boyfriend back home. Besides, filled with doubt, as her feelings for this stranger scare her, Tulia leaves Raffaello for Italy, but somehow, inexplicably he keeps showing up wherever she is, as if he knows where she is going before she does. Tulia begins a novel starring the mysterious muse Beloved, who influenced Raphael's work, but never appears in any of it. Tulia wonders about her muse.
This is an interesting complex (in terms of structure) romance, that rotates leads between the personal stories of Tulia and Raffaello, their times together and her draft historical novel. The stunning vivid look at Venice (then and now) is incredible, as if Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk are landscape artists rather than novelists. Readers seeking something different in their romantic novels will enjoy reading about two loves between artists and their muses.
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