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Lately discovered by art historians, and among the few feminine post-Renaissance artists to attain popularity during her very own period, Artemisia Gentileschi brought an incredibly "modern" lifestyle. Susan Vreeland informs Artemisia's fascinating tale, you start with her public embarrassment in a rape test in the age of eighteen, and continuing through her father's infidelity, her marriage of comfort, parenthood, and increasing popularity being an artist. Set from the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, Genoa, and Naples, inhabited by historic figures such as for instance Galileo and Cosimo de' Medici Two, and full of rich details about existence being a seventeenth-century artist, Vreeland produces an uplifting story about one-woman's lifelong find it difficult to reconcile career and family, love and genius.