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The Passion of Artemisia
by Susan Vreeland
This is a great story, although some of our book-club members felt the writing wasn't quite up to par.
This is a fictionalized biography of Artemisia Genteleschi, the first woman to be admitted to the Academia del Arte in Florence - a 17th-century artist who specialized in portraits of strong women from the Bible or mythology. It offers a fascinating glimpse of Italy at the time. It is in turns passionate, tender, disturbing, and frustrating; on a par with [b:Girl With a Pearl Earring|2865|Girl With a Pearl Earring|Tracy Chevalier|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327197580s/2865.jpg|3358875].
This is a fictionalized biography of Artemisia Genteleschi, the first woman to be admitted to the Academia del Arte in Florence - a 17th-century artist who specialized in portraits of strong women from the Bible or mythology. It offers a fascinating glimpse of Italy at the time. It is in turns passionate, tender, disturbing, and frustrating; on a par with [b:Girl With a Pearl Earring|2865|Girl With a Pearl Earring|Tracy Chevalier|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327197580s/2865.jpg|3358875].