The Passion of Artemisia
By Susan Vreeland
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780142001820, 352pp.)
Publication Date: December 2002
Categories: Historical - General
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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.
Susan Vreeland's short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Missouri Review, New England Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget. (People) Vreeland has burrowed deeply into the mind of the artist and produced a vivid cast of female characters. (Vogue)
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