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She is shunned by the roman townspeople and cruelly perceived as a prostitute. Having finished the book i went and checked out some books with photos of artemisias paintings and judith, cleopatra and lucrezia were just as id imagined them in the book. Instead, vreeland has chosen to flesh out artemisia s story from that point forward, illuminating an artist juggling the joy and intensity of creating art with the difficulties inherent in marriage and motherhood at a time when. The passion of artemisia the passion of artemisia by vreeland, susan author dec312002 paperback.
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