Artemisia

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Lapierre is a novelist and biographer. Her book, Fanny Stevenson, won Grand Prix Litteraire des Lectrices de Elle. She currently lives in Rome. Klappentext Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most fascinating artists in history. Apprenticed at an early age to her father, the seventeenth-century painter Orazio Gentileschi, she rapidly became more famous than he was, for her rich, dramatic canvases. But her fame was tarnished by scandal. At the age of seventeen, she was violently raped by Agostino Tassi, an artist friend of Orazio's. On discovering Tassi's betrayal, Orazio took the case to court and there followed, in 1612, eight months of humiliation for Artemisia as the inhabitants of Rome's colourful artist's quarter came to give evidence. Their testimony - frank, partial, often cruel - in this first rape trial ever to be fully documented, made Artemisia and her father notorious. Zusammenfassung On discovering Tassi's betrayal, Orazio took the case to court and there followed, in 1612, eight months of humiliation for Artemisia as the inhabitants of Rome's colourful artist's quarter came to give evidence.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Lapierre, Lapierre Alexandra
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.10.2012
• EAN: 9780099581697
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958169-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, baroque, Individual artists, art monographs, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Paintings and painting