Waking Raphael
Chapter One
MIRACLE NUMBER 1
A Galilean Transformation
'You see how he glances furtively over one shoulder, as if ... as
if he were escaping from the scene of a crime.' It was Charlotte's
first rehearsal to camera, and the unforgiving television lights
revealed her to be more nervous than the young man in the portrait
she was describing. 'But is he the perpetrator of the crime or just
a witness?' she went on. 'I believe the artist wants us to ask such
questions, feel ourselves part of the plot. The picture, you see,
represents a window into another space and time-in this case the
fifteenth century. Everything in the painting is designed to
reinforce the fiction that this young man, with one hand apparently
on the picture frame, is about to vault from his world into ours.'
'To me he looks like Paolo,' said Donna. 'The same sexy ... read full excerpt from Waking Raphael ebook
