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A painter’s apprentice (chapter 1-6)
Date: 11/12/2015, Categories: Fiction, Lesbian, Reluctance, Romance, Young, Author: Artemis108, Rating: 33.3, Source: sexstories.com
eat? Surely she would starve. Would she return to Jacopo and Marco? What would they do to her? She shuddered at the thought. “Wait,” she pleaded “please…” She searched her wits desperately for something to do. Something to say… He pushed her harder. “Please!” she blurted. “If such a glorious altarpiece came out of your heart, surely you can find pity in it!” His hand withdrew. “You- you know my work?” “Y-yes! I’m from Vitellino! I looked at your altarpiece throughout every mass when I was a child and dreamed of being an artist as great as you! I-it was the one of the dying man nailed to a beam of wood!” “…You mean Christ…?” he asked, slightly taken aback. “Yes! Christ!” the name sounded familiar. “It’s so… pretty. The colors are so…” She was still racking her brain in a frenzy for the right words. She’d never had to describe her love of the painting before, and now she wasn’t sure she could. Oddly she suddenly remembered something her father had said to her. “I-it could be a gift for the Medici! Fit for the pope’s ceiling!” She stood trembling and prayed Lorenzo wouldn’t press her for details, and realize she had no idea what was on the pope’s ceiling. As much as she loved it, she didn’t know enough about painting to provide much elaboration on the subject. To her immediate relief her words seemed to pacify him. Something in his face seemed almost wistful and distant. “You know, when I began my apprenticeship I saw myself in Rome… Florence… Naples… I even had ambitions of ...