by Marta Maretich | Jun 24, 2015 | Narrators, Painters and painting, The Merchants of Light
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo is an artist with two distinct parts to his career. The first part is conventional, predictable and public. The second part is enigmatic, comical and mostly private. So distinct are these two phases, and so different are the artworks that... 
by Marta Maretich | Jun 17, 2015 | Narrators, Painters and painting, The Merchants of Light
Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo is the youngest of my narrators in The Merchants of Light. In real life he was the youngest Tiepolo, born in Venice in 1736 when his mother Cecilia Guardi Tiepolo was 34 and his father, Giambattista Tiepolo, was 40. His middle name, which... 
by Marta Maretich | Jun 4, 2015 | Narrators, Painters and painting, The Merchants of Light
Francesco Algarotti by Étienne Liotard It’s impossible to sum up Francesco Algarotti in a brief description. Scientist, historian, poet, diplomat, philosopher, art critic and dealer, Algarotti was Italy’s best known and most respected man of letters during his... 
by Marta Maretich | Jun 1, 2015 | Narrators, The Merchants of Light, Writing and reading
Cecilia Tiepolo circa 1770. This pastel portrait by son Lorenzo is one of only two known portraits of her. Nobody knows much about Maria Cecilia Guardi Tiepolo, one of the central narrators of my historical novel, The Merchants of Light. It seems strange to say this... 
by Marta Maretich | May 20, 2015 | Narrators, The Merchants of Light, Writing and reading
Lieutenant John D. Skilton Jr. If ever there was an unlikely-likely hero, it was John D. Skilton Jr. The first of the five narrators of my book, The Merchants of Light, he was also my most unexpected discovery. I had no plans to include a modern voice in this... 