The Passion of Artemisia: A Novel
by Susan Vreeland | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0142001821 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0142001821 Global Overview for this book
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Bestselling author Susan Vreeland follows up her luminous debut novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, with the remarkable fictional portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era. After being raped by her painting teacher, she is humiliated in papal court as a loose woman and her testimony is dismissed. When her father arranges a marriage of convenience, Artemisia escapes from Rome to Florence where she discovers a vibrant life in seventeenth-century Italy, is befriended by Galileo, and finds a patron in Cosimo de'Medici II. But marriage clashes with her painterly talents and growing success, and Artemisia begins a lifelong search to reconcile family life, passion, and genius.
Bestselling author Susan Vreeland follows up her luminous debut novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, with the remarkable fictional portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era. After being raped by her painting teacher, she is humiliated in papal court as a loose woman and her testimony is dismissed. When her father arranges a marriage of convenience, Artemisia escapes from Rome to Florence where she discovers a vibrant life in seventeenth-century Italy, is befriended by Galileo, and finds a patron in Cosimo de'Medici II. But marriage clashes with her painterly talents and growing success, and Artemisia begins a lifelong search to reconcile family life, passion, and genius.
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