In a city where women are seen not heard, Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist.
She grows up in a family of painters – all men and she knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future because she’s a woman. She’s clever, ambitious, resilient, and driven and wants to experience the world, but she knows her place and she belongs to her father and her future husband.
She goes from lesson to lesson, honing her craft and paints in private but she’s only allowed to paint the women who inspire her. When her mother died her father became very strict and followed the pope’s edicts about modesty, limiting the subjects she could paint.
When one of her father’s collaborators enters her life, Tassi, he becomes her tutor, a handsome dashing figure, who represents everything that a life of freedom might offer. Until the unthinkable happens and her torture begins.
- ISBN10 1739185765
- ISBN13 9781739185763
- Publish Date 29 September 2023
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Memoirs Publishing
- Imprint Romaunce Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 420
- Language English