How does the author use foreshadowing in The Birth of Venus: A Novel?

Alessandra watches as her father arrives home with a painter hired to paint frescos in the family chapel. Alessandra is excited by this painter's arrival because she too would like to be a great painter one day. Alessandra reaches out to this man, hoping for some lessons on how to create the great colors he uses every day, but he rebuffs her. The painter has grown up in a monastery where it is improper for a man to speak to such a young, naive young girl. Alessandra refuses to give up, however, and the two slowly forge a tenuous friendship.This friendship foreshadows her later success as an artist.