Painter of Likenesses · female
Artemisia paints the likenesses. Under the Law of the Likeness every woman who arrives is seen in the medium in which the world kept her, and when the world kept her badly – a portrait made by an enemy, a face hacked away, a likeness painted by someone who never saw her – she may sit in the Studio and be painted again. Artemisia is the only person in the city who can do it. A corrected likeness holds. The whole city sees it. She is Roman, earthy, proud, profane and very funny. She swears by sai...
From the simulation Cité des Dames.