The Passion of Artemisia
by Vreeland, Susan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0670894494
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894499
- Seller
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Paonia, Colorado, United States
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Synopsis
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. 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. 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.
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- Bookseller
- West Elk Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2561
- Title
- The Passion of Artemisia
- Author
- Vreeland, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670894494
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894499
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Signed;
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