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Teachers guide for the passion of artemisia susan vreeland. One thing vreeland does do well in this book is get inside the mind of the main. In the passion of artemisia vreeland steps up a gear and delivers a tale which contains some of the most wonderful descriptive passages ive ever read. Free download or read online the passion of artemisia pdf epub book. Affordable and search from millions of royalty free images, photos and vectors. At age eighteen, artemisia gentileschi finds herself humiliated in papal court for publicly accusing the man who raped her agostino tassi, her painting teacher. The passion of artemisia by susan vreeland in this novel about a reallife female renaissance painter, a thin veneer of feminism covers a. The book begins with a rape trial, where artemisia pursues justice for the suffering caused by one of her fathers. While the passion of artemisia is hardly a perfect novel, it is a thoroughly engaging fictionalized account of the legendary romanborn artemisia gentileschi painter extraordinaire living and working during the 17th century. When the rapist is tried by a court of the inquisition, its more as if artemisia is the criminal than agostinowho gets off free thanks partly to artemisia s father, his own interests trumping his daughters while artemisia, after torture and public humiliation, is left only with a destroyed reputation. Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, artemisia gentileschi.
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