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The Passion of Artemisia
by Vreeland, Susan
- Used
- very good
- hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0670894494
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894499
- Seller
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Berkeley, California
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About This Item
Viking Adult, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. 288p. Novel that tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter who beguiled post-Renaissance Italy with the beauty of her work.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Diatrope Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 25517
- Title
- The Passion of Artemisia
- Author
- Vreeland, Susan
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- very good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670894494
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894499
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date published
- 2002
- Keywords
- European Art, Women's Studies, Italian Art, Women Artists, Renaissance, Agostino Tassi, de Medici, Galileo, Painting, Historical Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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