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Artemisia

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Artemisia
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alexandra Lapierre
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:512
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Baroque
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780099581697
ClassificationsDewey:759.5
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication Date 2 October 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most fascinating artists in history. Apprenticed at an early age to her father, the seventeenth-century painter Orazio Gentileschi, she rapidly became more famous than he was, for her rich, dramatic canvases. But her fame was tarnished by scandal. At the age of seventeen, she was violently raped by Agostino Tassi, an artist friend of Orazio's. On discovering Tassi's betrayal, Orazio took the case to court and there followed, in 1612, eight months of humiliation for Artemisia as the inhabitants of Rome's colourful artist's quarter came to give evidence. Their testimony - frank, partial, often cruel - in this first rape trial ever to be fully documented, made Artemisia and her father notorious.

Author Biography

Alexandra Lapierre is a novelist and biographer. Her book, Fanny Stevenson, won Grand Prix Litteraire des Lectrices de Elle. She currently lives in Rome.