Passion of Artemisia

A Novel

Vreeland Susan, Vreeland, Susan

Penguin Books, 2002

A true-to-life novel of one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era against great struggle. Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" life. Vreeland tells Artemisia's captivating story, beginning with her public humiliation in a rape trial at the age of eighteen, and continuing through her father's betrayal, her marriage of convenience, motherhood, and growing fame as an artist. Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, Genoa, and Naples, inhabited by historical characters such as Galileo and Cosimo de' Medici II, and filled with rich details about life as a seventeenth-century painter, Vreeland creates an inspiring story about one woman's lifelong struggle to reconcile career and family, passion and genius.

ISBN-13

9780142001820

ISBN-10

0142001821

Publisher

Penguin Books

Year

2002

Publication date

2002-12-31

Pages

352

Dimensions

18.59 x 11.33 x 2.31 cm

Weight

232