by Susan Vreeland · Heyne · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453869967
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«Die Malerin» is the historical novel by Susan Vreeland about the painter Artemisia Gentileschi, published by Heyne in paperback (351 pages, in German).
The work follows Artemisia Gentileschi from her beginnings in Rome to her success in Florence: the patronage of the Medici, her friendship with Galileo, the trial after an assault, the interrogations of the Inquisition and the struggle to be accepted by the art world. Vreeland portrays a determined woman who turned adversity into creative drive.
German translation by Marie Rahn from the novel «The Passion of Artemisia» (2001), by Susan Vreeland; this German version was published in 2003.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction about women artists of the Baroque.
Susan Joyce Vreeland was an American author. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. The Passion of Artemisia is a fictionalized investigation of some aspects of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while Girl in Hyacinth Blue centers round an imaginary painting by Vermeer. The Forest Lover is a fictionalized account of the life of the Canadian painter Emily Carr.
