6/23/2023 0 Comments Blood water paint book![]() ![]() Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. ![]() ![]() She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint.īy the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. "I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."-Amanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."- The New Yorker ![]()
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