The Passion of Artemisia: A Novel

A true-to-life novel of one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era against great struggle.

Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" life.

Vreeland tells Artemisia's captivating story, beginning with her public humiliation in a rape trial at the age of eighteen, and continuing through her father's betrayal, her marriage of convenience, motherhood, and growing fame as an artist.