The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780142001820)

"Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue.... The Passion of Artemisia is even better.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget." --People

A true-to-life novel of one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era against great struggle. Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" life. 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.

Author: Susan Vreeland
ISBN-10: 0142001821
ISBN-13: 9780142001820
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2002
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.32h x 4.46w x 0.91d

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

Award: San Diego Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2003 01/01/2003 pg. 1