The Passion of Artemisia - by Susan Vreeland (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Vreeland's novel "The Girl in Hyacinth Blue" traced a Vermeer painting through its owners, and her follow-up is also a moving celebration of the power of art. She presents a fictionalized version of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, known for her contributions to Renaissance art and for the rape she suffered at the hands of her father's painting partner.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Susan Vreeland set a high standard with <i>Girl in Hyacinth Blue</i>.... <i>The Passion of Artemisia</i> is even better.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget. --<i>People</i></b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A privileged glimpse into an extraordinary woman's soul.--<b>Margaret George</b><p> </p><p>Lovely.--<b>The Atlantic Monthly</b></p><p>Susan Vreeland set a high standard with <b>Girl in Hyacinth Blue</b>.... <b>The Passion of Artemisia</b> is even better.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget. --<b>People</b></p><p>Vreeland has burrowed deeply into the mind of the artist and produced a vivid cast of female characters. --<b>Vogue</b></p><p>Vreeland's remarkable ability to portray with lyricism and intelligence the life of the artist both at its most practical and most sublime makes this novel an accomplished work of art. --<b>San Francisco Chronicle</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Susan Vreeland</b> is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of eight books, including <i>Clara and Mr. Tiffany </i>and<i> Girl in Hyacinth Blue</i>. She died in 2017.
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