Artemisia

Alexandra Lapierre

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Vintage
02 October 2012

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Baroque; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment

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.

By: Alexandra Lapierre
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 351g
ISBN: 9780099581697
ISBN 10: 0099581698
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 02 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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Artemisia

Alexandra Lapierre

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