![]() ![]() At age eighteen, Artemisia Gentileschi finds herself humiliated in papal court for publicly accusing the man who raped her-Agostino Tassi, her painting teacher. "The Passion of Artemisia" chronicles the extraordinary life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to make a significant contribution to art history. ![]() Now, in her stunning new novel, she tells the story of a painter who transformed Renaissance Italy with the beauty of her work. In her luminous debut novel, Susan Vreeland told the story of a Vermeer painting that transformed the lives of its many owners with its beauty. ![]() ![]() 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." - Publisher. Susan 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. "Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably 'modern' life. A fictional portait of the Italian baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. ![]()
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