The artist’s friend loans her the keys to an empty apartment in Venice. It’s the middle of summer, 1988. She makes numerous train trips to Padua, visiting Giotto’s chapel, but more often she remains on the island, and when she does she walks to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, where Tintoretto’s Crucifixion adorns a wall in the great room designated for gatherings of the fraternity’s governing body.