![]() ![]() This is a story of the love-hate relationship between master and pupil, father and daughter, at a time when daughters belonged to their fathers and had no legal rights. Artemisia won the case, but in return she was ostracized from Rome and from her father. For eight months all of Rome was riveted by the trial. Indeed, she went farther: she dared to plead her case in court. Soon the Gentileschi name was being dragged through scandal, for Artemisia refused, even when tortured, to deny that she had been raped. But at the age of seventeen Artemisia was raped by her father’s best friend and partner, Agostino Tassi. She showed such remarkable talent that he came to view her as the most precious thing he owned. ![]() Born to the artist Orazio Gentileschi at the beginning of the 1600s, when artists were the celebrities of the day, Artemisia was apprenticed to her father at an early age. In this heroic, passionate story, Alexandra Lapierre sweeps her audience through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and the studios of artists who used their daggers as efficiently as their brushes. ![]()
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