Geneva, 1535. At the pick of the struggle between Catholics and Protestants, part of a retable is destroyed. However, part of it survives. In that piece a revolutionary painting is represented, painted a century before. In a narrative that crosses a Europe in crisis and war, we watch the strange but real story of a painting and its painter.

(“hardly the historical novel had achieved, in the last decade, an aesthetical quality with such brightness as in “O Retábulo de Genebra”.

Miguel Real, "Jornal de Letras" - Dezembro 2008)

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