{"product_id":"anna-banti-artemisia-9781913109004","title":"Artemisia","description":"First published in 1953, Artemisia is a classic of 20th century Italian literature. From its first publication in 1953, Artemisia, a novel about Artemisia Gentileschi, an iconic 17th century painter, by Anna Banti, a brilliant Italian art historian, established itself as a feminist masterpiece. Like Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower and Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, Artemisia is a book about the process of artistic creation. Much in Gentileschi's life marked her out as a victim - rape at the age of 18, a forced marriage to a man she did not love and, a powerful, patriarchal father, Orazio Gentileschi, who failed to value her artistic genius. But Gentileschi did not accept the status of victim, in the years between 1610 and 1650; she produced over 50 paintings that have established her as one of the great painters of all time.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nShe gave up everything - 'all tenderness, all claim to feminine virtues' to dedicate herself solely to painting. Sacrifices that Anna Banti, herself an artist, fully understands and captures in this amazing novel.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'What makes Artemisia a great book - and unique in Banti's work - is this double destiny, of a book lost and re-created. A book that by being posthumous, rewritten, resurrected, gained incalculably in emotional reach and moral authority. A metaphor for literature, perhaps. And a metaphor for reading, militant reading - which, at its worthiest, is rereading - too.' Susan Sontag","brand":"Hope Road","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53262956462422,"sku":"9781913109004-G","price":5.79,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781913109004_1_32acc88a-d7cf-4dd9-9f74-c4e99ba42299.jpg?v=1781218167","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/anna-banti-artemisia-9781913109004","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}