![]() ![]() 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. 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. Recorded by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. The Passion of Artemisia © 1999 Susan Vreeland. Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" life. Susan Vreeland, quote from The Passion of Artemisia It’s better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. Once again bringing the visual arts to vivid life, The Passion of Artemisia is a glowing, subtly delineated portrait of a remarkable womanthe first to make a significant contribution to art history. From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, fr. The Passion of Artemisia chronicles the extraordinary life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to make a significant contribution to art history. The Passion of Artemisia is even better. Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget." - PeopleĪ true-to-life novel of one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era against great struggle. Read 1,033 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() "Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue. ![]()
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