Her book on the first Italian woman painter from the Renaissance, Artemisia Gentileschi, was voted "Book of the Week" by the British BBC and "Best Book on the Seventeenth Century" by the Sorbonne University. She was elected "Donna per la Cultura," by the City of Rome, Italy, and awarded the prestigious "Grand Prix des Lectrices de ELLE" for her biography on the American pioneer Fanny Stevenson, wife of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Novelist and biographer, she is the author of many bestsellers translated worldwide.
Today she is regarded as one of the most progressive and expressive painters of her generation.French by birth, yet educated in the United States, Alexandra Lapierre is a graduate of the Sorbonne and the University of Southern California. For many years she was regarded as a curiosity. That she was a woman painting in the seventeenth century and that she was raped as a young woman by Agostino Tassi and participated in the prosecution of her rapist long overshadowed her achievements as an artist. Artemisia was also famous for her skill and talent in handling color, both overall in the composition but also in building depth. She was known for being able to convincingly depict the female figure, anywhere between nude and fully clothed.
Some of her best known themes are Susanna and the Elders (particularly the 1610 in Pommersfelden) and Judith Slaying Holofernes (most famous is her 1614-20 in Galleria degli Uffizi) and Judith and Her Maidservant (her version of 1625 at the Detroit Institute of Arts) that scholars currently know of. She specialized in painting pictures of strong and suffering women from myths, allegories, and the Bible- victims, suicides, warriors. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and had international clientele.
1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.
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