Artemisia Lapierre Alexandra
Artemisia Lapierre Alexandra Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most fascinating artists in history. But her fame was tarnished by scandal. Apprenticed at an early age to her father, the…
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Artemisia Lapierre Alexandra
Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most fascinating artists in history. But her fame was tarnished by scandal. Apprenticed at an early age to her father, the seventeenth-century painter Orazio Gentileschi, she rapidly became more famous than he was, for her rich, dramatic canvases.
On discovering Tassi's betrayal, Orazio took the case to court and there followed, in 1612, eight months of humiliation for Artemisia as the inhabitants of Rome's colourful artist's quarter came to give evidence. At the age of seventeen, she was violently raped by Agostino Tassi, an artist friend of Orazio's. Their testimony - frank, partial, often cruel - in this first rape trial ever to be fully documented, made Artemisia and her father notorious.