The Passion of Artemisia [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Vreeland, Susan

Published by Viking / Penguin Group, New York, 2002

About this Item

Fine unread condition pink boards with a black spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Susan Vreeland; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Author's Note; and Acknowledgments. Signed by the author with black ink on the full title page. "In her luminous debut novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland told the story of a Vermeer painting that transforms the lives of its many owners with its beauty. Now, in The Passion of Artemisia, she tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter who beguiled post-Renaissance Italy with the beauty of her work. At age eighteen, Artemisia Gentileschi finds herself humiliated in papal court for publicly accusing her painting teacher, Agostino Tassi, of raping her. When even her father does not stand up for her and she realizes that she will never live down her reputation as a loose woman if she stays in Rome, she begs to have a marriage arranged for her. Her new husband, and artist named Pietro Stiatesi, takes her to his native Florence, where their life together offers the promise of love and family. Here Artemisia's talent for painting blossoms and she becomes the first woman elected to the Accademia dell'Arte. But marriage clashes with her newfound fame as a painter, and she begins a lifelong search to reconcile painting and motherhood, passion and genius. Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, Genoa, and Naples, peopled with historical characters such as Cosimo de' Medici II and Galileo and filled with the details of the life of a seventeenth-century painter, The Passion of Artemisia is the story of Gentileschi's struggle to find love, forgiveness, and wholeness through her art. A worhty successor to Girl in Hyacinth Bule, it is at once a dramatic tale of love, a moving father-dauthter story, and portrait of an astonishing woman who ignored the conventions of her day and dared to follow her heart." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Passion of Artemisia [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Viking / Penguin Group, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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