The life of the studio and the supreme importance of colour in all the essentials of its make up is rendered absolutely convincingly. All this led to me becoming fascinated with the love of lapis lazuli colour in Renaissance life and the way it could make a painting majestic and how people would almost kill for it.

As the water levels rise and the plague creeps ever closer, an increasingly desperate Zorzo isn't sure whom he can trust .The initial starting point for this story was seeing the Giorgione exhibition at the Royal Academy and hearing Anish Kapoor talking about copyrighting the Vantablack colour. JRR: How did you choose ‘prince orient’ as the name for the mysterious highly sought after colour at the centre of ‘The Colour Storm’? A story filled with intrigue and secrets as well as colour, Damian Dibben’s new novel is filled with vivid descriptions .

Zorzo is absorbed in his work painting Sybille the foreign wife of a wealthy man who holds the secret to a new color pigment that can raise Zorzo above all the other grand artists while conspiracy swirls around him and the plague approaches Venice.In his new novel, The Colour Storm, Damian Dibben looks at this history and at the enigmatic character of Giorgione to bring us a version of his story that, like Venice itself, it both dramatic and dreamy. But, on the other side of this, it is very rich in atmosphere and tone that keeps you wanting to read more as the situation Zorzo finds himself caught up in reaches its climax. Mimo że jest to powieść wyjątkowa i pełna pięknych opisów, czasami może wydawać się nieco rozwlekła.