What a Woman Can Do: A Novel Based on the Life of Artemisia Gentileschi

Weary of hearing what a woman couldn't do, she had no choice but to show them what she could. Four centuries later, the world finally noticed.

Though she was "just a girl," Artemisia Gentileschi's father recognized and nurtured his daughter's raw talent and escorted her into the male-dominated elite circle of seventeenth-century fine artists. Later dishonored in the most humiliating way and betrayed by her father for the sake of his own reputation and fortune, the Caravaggio-inspired teenag...