Mar 25, 2024
Charlie and Elizabeth Fremantle (Disobedient) discuss the formative life, and Elizabeth's fictionalisation, of Artemisia Gentileschi, a woman painter from the 17th century.
Please note that there are many mentions of rape in this episode, and there is also a mention of animal death.
The previous episodes with Elizabeth are episode 7 and episode
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The exhibition at The National
Gallery
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Caravaggio's Judith Beheading
Holofernes
Mary D Garrard's Artemisia
Gentileschi
Elizabeth's Queen's Gambit
Firebrand
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Discussions
01:18 Why Artemisia, and the general
inspiration for the book
04:40 Elizabeth talks about Artemisia's work in
general, as well as her success in her lifetime
10:58 How much does your fictionalisation of
Orazio Gentileschi align with what's known?
15:14 Where Artemisia worked on her father's
paintings
16:47 The Stiatessi family and what we know about
Artemisia's husband
20:12 About Zita, real name Tuzia
22:49 The fragments of translations in the book -
listen in for some interesting facts!
25:56 The use of laundry and light coming through
the laundry lines
28:21 The Nightingale (Ovid's Metamorphoses'
Philomel and Procne)
31:19 About Beatrice Cenci and Elizabeth's next
book
35:28 Asking Elizabeth about what Charlie feels is
her defining element - her honing in to one or two specific
elements - and how she may continue in this vein in future
40:42 Lola the dog, who is mentioned at the start
of the novel
41:29 Release dates for Firebrand, the film of
Queen's Gambit
Photo credit: JP Masclet.