At the age of 24, Dürer thought he had found BEAUTY at the Venetian Piazza of San Marco’s Cathedral shown below. This tainted his impression of his home city Nuremburg which he felt only called him to DUTY.  Upon hiking back to Nuremberg over the Alps, he felt distressed about what he left behind but eager to pursue his artwork again in Nuremburg.   This is a historic fiction novel leaving you to wonder how it will all turn out for this conflicted man with whom many of us can identify.