Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble , Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo\'s Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance.
When not writing fiction or producing television, she can usually be found traveling the world with her husband--an actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer--in search of her next story..
Storey is also a TV producer of The Alec Baldwin Show on ABC, The Arsenio Hall Show on CBS, and the Emmy-nominated The Writers\' Room for Sundance.
It has been translated into six languages and is in development as a feature film by Pioneer Pictures.
About author(s): Stephanie Storey is the author of the stunning debut, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
With its gorgeous writing, rich settings, endearing characters, and riveting plot, Raphael, Painter in Rome brings to vivid life these two Renaissance masters going head to head in the deadly halls of the Vatican.
Along the way, he conspires with cardinals, scrambles through the ruins of ancient Rome, and falls in love with a baker\'s-daughter-turned-prostitute who becomes his muse.
As Raphael strives toward perfection in paint, he battles internal demons: his desperate ambition, crippling fear of imperfection, and unshakable loneliness.
When Pope Julius II calls both artists down to Rome, they are pitted against each other: Michelangelo painting the Sistine Ceiling, while Raphael decorates the pope\'s private apartments.
But to be the best, he must beat the best, the legendary sculptor of the David , Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Orphaned at age eleven, Raphael is determined to keep the deathbed promise he made to his father: become the greatest artist in history.
Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome , Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo\'s fiercest rival--the young, beautiful, brilliant Painter of perfection, Raphael.
Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble , Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo\'s Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance