The Passion of Artemisia

A Novel
by Vreeland Susan

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ISBN: 9780142001820

Format
Paperback / softback
Pages
352
Publication date
31/12/2002
Publisher
Penguin Books

Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 232 g
Dimensions 18,59 × 11,33 × 2,31 mm