The Passion of Artemisia Vreeland SusanPaperback
The Passion of Artemisia Vreeland SusanPaperback "Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine…
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The Passion of Artemisia Vreeland SusanPaperback
"Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget." --PeopleA true-to-life novel of one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era against great struggle. The Passion of Artemisia is even better....
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. Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" life. 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