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The Passion of Artemisia
by Vreeland, Susan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670894494
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894499
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Viking, New York, 2002 Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 288 pages. SIGNED by author. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Removable bookstore sticker on DJ-back, else fine. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A very nice copy of the First Printing of the First edition protected in a new Brodart cover.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover.
Synopsis
Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" life. Susan 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. Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, Genoa, and Naples, inhabited by historical characters such as Galileo and Cosimo de' Medici II, and filled with rich details about life as a seventeenth-century painter, Vreeland creates an inspiring story about one woman's lifelong struggle to reconcile career and family, passion and genius.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eliabooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00462
- Title
- The Passion of Artemisia
- Author
- Vreeland, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0670894494
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894499
- Publisher
- Viking, New York
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
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About the Seller
Eliabooks
Biblio member since 2006
Los Angeles, California
About Eliabooks
Eliabooks specializes in art and photography books, including exhibition catalogs.
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