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This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.
A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being an immoral liar. What really happened, and why will this trial scandalize seventeenth-century Rome?
Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumptuous new palaces and lavish wealth on constant display. A city where women are seen but not heard.
Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a family of painters - men and boys. She knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future. She belongs to her father and will belong to a husband.
As Artemisia patiently goes from lesson to lesson, perfecting her craft, a mysterious tutor enters her life. Tassi is a dashing figure, handsome and worldly, and for a moment he represents everything that a life of freedom might offer. But then the unthinkable happens. A violent act that threatens Artemisia's honor, and her virtue.
In the eyes of her family, Artemisia should accept her fate. In the eyes of the law, she is the villain.
But Artemisia is a survivor. And this is her story to tell.
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- ISBN: 9781639364169
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- ISBN: 9781639364169
- File size: 3402 KB
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- English
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May 15, 2023
In a novel as vivid and powerful as the paintings made by its main character, Fremantle (The Poison Bed, 2019) tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance artist and feminist icon. Born into a family of painters, Artemisia was allowed to study painting but forbidden to learn to read. Artemisia found her true calling in creating striking images of women featured in mythology and the Bible. Her earliest surviving work, Susanna and the Elders, was painted when she was 17. Raped by her painting teacher and forced to marry him, only to find out that he was already married, Artemisia endured torture at his trial to prove that she was telling the truth. She survived the ordeal and continued to paint, eventually becoming the first woman member of Florence's Accademia delle Arte del Disegno. Fremantle draws from court transcripts and Artemisia's letters to paint a detailed picture of seventeen-century Italian society and its brutal treatment of women. Imbued with historical detail and suffused with imagination, this is an exceptional work of biographical fiction.COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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