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Artemisia Gentileschi, Hardback Book

Artemisia Gentileschi Hardback

Part of the Lives of the Artists series

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Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age.

In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day. As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities.

Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything.

Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century.

Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century.

Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision.

Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art. 'Lives of the Artists'is a new series of brief artists biographies from Laurence King Publishing.

The series takes as its inspiration Giorgio Vasari's five-hundred-year-old masterwork, updating it with modern takes on the lives of key artists past and present.

Focusing on the life of the artist rather than examining their work, each book also includes key images illustrating the artist's life.

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