Women Artists

When I am in Italy, I like to have a "theme."  Next trip one of our themes will be "The Lives of Women."  One of my favorite artists is Artemisia Gentileschi, about whom several books have recently been published.  Two of my recommendations:  Artemisia  (Alexandra Lapierre) – a well-researched biographical novel about the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, a female painter who was a contemporary of Caravaggio, and who worked in Florence in the early 17^th Century.  On the same subject, The Passion of Artemisia (Susan Vreeland) is a lighter read, and is of some interest to us in Southern California, as the author lives in San Diego.