Artemisia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre, Alexandra Lapierre
Artemisia: A Novel

Alexandra Lapierre, Alexandra Lapierre

544 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction art historical challenging dark emotional slow-paced
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In a vivid re-creation of Baroque Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the Western world's first major women artists, is raped by her father's partner, Agostino Tassi, and refuses, in the face of family pressure, scandal, and torture to deny the c...

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