The "Venus Victorious" was commissioned before the passionate relationship between Camillo and Paolina, who were married in 1803, rapidly cooled.
At the heart of "The Lady and the Duke" is a complex and passionate relationship between two people caught in a torrent of history.
Previously unpublished letters are to shed light on the passionate relationship between Ernest Hemingway and an Italian teenager 30 years his junior.
Ms. Shak is by far the most obsessive character in "God Save My Shoes," a documentary by Julie Benasra about the passionate relationship between women and their high heels.
With the "passionate relationship" between potter and clay as its focus, the show runs from conventional to way-out wacky and from complex structural fantasies to simple bowls designed for holding apples.
The Great Level, then, is the story of a strange and passionate relationship between engineer and Fenlander, a careful professional with his pencil and an illiterate fisherwoman from the willow huts in the marshes.
To ruminate repeatedly on the fraught but frequently passionate relationship between different worlds, including the afterlife (though, curiously, he does not mention Tristan's devotion to the theme); between artist and citizen; obsession and vocation; and on the nature of love, life and, most fascinatingly, disease and death.
Schrader is best known in the English-speaking world for the 1999 film Aimée and Jaguar, based on the real-life passionate relationship between two women in Germany in the second world war, one of whom is a Jewish woman called Felice living under an assumed identity.
"Verona again," people groan as Shakespeare opts for yet another Italian setting, Marlowe selflessly helps Shakespeare conquer his writer's block, and the passionate relationship between Will and Viola follows the arc of that of the lovers, divided by familial circumstance, in Romeo and Juliet.
"Love in the Time of Cholera," published in 1985, was Mr. García Márquez's most romantic novel, the story of the resumption of a passionate relationship between a recently widowed septuagenarian and the lover she had broken with more than 50 years before.
