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In the same year she painted her infamous Judith , and one of the great Renaissance masters was born. One feels infuriated reading how dismissive her male peers are of her obvious talent and how she must "guard her honor" above all.This novel has a wonderful, if somewhat bloody beginning, acting like a promise of what’s to come and the author had captured my attention straight away. Artemisia is a great subject for historical fiction, being a strong, ambitious, determined woman whose work has left a lasting impact. Through vivid depictions of the paintings in the story, and the art of her own writing, Liz has bared her soul and produced this stunning portrait of a courageous genius who refuses to accept the abuse or petty jealousies of men who would oppress her. This is the story of a young girl being wronged and trying to gain recognition for it and, above all, escape from it.

Zo komt Agistino Tassi in haar leven - ook een schilder - maar hij heeft tijdens haar bijlessen een ander doel voor ogen. The descriptive power of the novel transported me straight to the heart of Renaissance Rome with some passages so beautiful I had to read them twice. Gripping, captivating, and consistently enlightening, DISOBEDIENT firmly places Gentileschi as one of the greatest artists and heroines in history. And yet it still falls back on lazy stereotypes that evil men draw sexy paintings while good girl Gentileschi paints morally pure Art. Many readers may well be familiar with Gentileschi’s story I don’t want to spoil it for those who don’t.But from the brutal rape sprung her most renowned paintings, full of unflinching violence and passion. The colourful, brutal world of Baroque Italy is superbly evoked in this gripping novel of Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the era's greatest artists.

The book depicts Artemisia as right at every turn, about everything, too talented to be properly understood, and with goals that are incomprehensible to her male contemporaries-- all things that are entirely untrue, even inside the novel itself. It is readily apparent in the male-dominated world of art that she wants to draw her own path on like her art. If you already know what happened, let yourself be immersed in 17th-century Rome as the action unfolds in the hands of a master storyteller. Artemisia Gentileschi helpt haar vader Orazio bij het schilderen en al snel wordt duidelijk dat zij misschien wel meer talent heeft dan hij.

On many levels …At times I felt for Orazio (her father), trying to keep the family reputation intact so that his commissions didn’t dry up. Toen ik hoorde dat mijn favoriete auteur, Fremantle die gekend is voor haar Tudor en Stuartboeken, een fictieboek over haar zou uitbrengen was ik natuurlijk ontzettend blij. Another great novel that didn’t disappoint and I’m already eagerly looking forward to Fremantle’s next book.

The plot is based on the real and significant happenings in Artemisia Gentileschi’s life and provoked very strong emotions from me. Dit is niet het verhaal van een vrouwelijke schilder die het glazen plafond probeert te doorbreken met haar werk. She can see with absolute clarity the way in which works of art - all art - speak to each other down the years. I think that in historical fiction to believe in the characters is so vital for the history to come alive. I mean, I am as Artemisia–obsessed as anybody, but our heroine here is brilliant and faultless from six-years old onward… so it’s a point of view, but not one that’d be entirely manageable if not for the harrowing events that we all know are coming along the way.Could have been stronger written in the first person - did we really need to get Zita’s or Orazio’s (extremely on the nose) POVs? It is intimate in a way I can't articulate, and deeply personal to me in a way I will never be able to explain. Through effervescent prose, Elizabeth Fremantle brings the story of artist Artemisia Gentieschi to life. We are lucky her work has survived and that she is now getting the attention she should have had in the years after she created her masterpieces, but she was almost wrenched from her one passion, her art, when she was raped by an instructor and she saw before her the choice of marrying her abuser, becoming a nun, or taking her own life. Recently Judith and her Maidservant was displayed at the Nelson Atkins Museum Of Art, and I was impressed by its large size, 72.