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"Life Without Instruction is based on a true story and a real trial. Artemisia Gentileschi's father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes the unusual step of having his daughter trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his friend, Agostino Tassi. Tassi rapes Artemisia, and is taken to trial by both Artemisia and Orazio. As usual, the person really on trial in this rape case is the woman, who is publically humiliated and forced to endure the torture of thumb screws. Yet through this ordeal Artemisia not only emerges as a strong and independent woman: She...

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