The Passion of Artemisia

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/31/2002
ISBN: 9780142001820
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.32h x 4.46w x 0.91d
Award: San Diego Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2003 01/01/2003 pg. 1

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 120982 / Passion of Artemisia
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13