The Passion of Artemisia Hardcover - 2002
by VREELAND, Susan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
In her luminous debut novel, Susan Vreeland told the story of a Vermeer painting that transformed the lives of its many owners with its beauty. Now, in her stunning new novel, she tells the story of a painter who transformed Renaissance Italy with the beauty of her work. The Passion of Artemisia chronicles the extraordinary life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to make a significant contribution to art history.
At age eighteen, Artemisia Gentileschi finds herself humiliated in papal court for publicly accusing the man who raped her-Agostino Tassi, her painting teacher. When even her father does not stand up for her, she knows she cannot stay in Rome and begs to have a marriage arranged for her. Her new husband, an artist named Pietro Stiatessi, takes her to his native Florence, where her talent for painting blossoms and she becomes the first woman to be elected to the Accademia dell'Arte. But marriage clashes with Artemisia's newfound fame as a painter, and she begins a lifelong search to reconcile painting and motherhood, passion and genius.
Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, and Genoa, peopled with historical characters such as Cosimo de' Medici and Galileo and filled with the details of the life of a Renaissance painter, The Passion of Artemisia is the story of Gentileschi's struggle to find love, forgiveness, and wholeness through her art. At once a dramatic tale of love and a moving father-daughter story, it is the portrait of an astonishing woman that will captivate lovers of Gentileschi's paintings and anyone interested in the life of a woman who ignored the conventions of her day and dared to follow her heart.
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- Title The Passion of Artemisia
- Author VREELAND, Susan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, (New York)
- Date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 304118
- ISBN 9780670894499 / 0670894494
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.42 x 1.06 in (23.72 x 16.31 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Italy, Biographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001026119
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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