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A Reputation (Original title)
Date: 03 June 1994 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Deborah Wignall

Synopsis: The penultimate programme in a six-part series that attempts to recapture the lives of ten extraordinary women through their own writings. Tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, the Italian painter who, in 1612, accused a fellow artist of rape. The records of the trial show how her reputation as both woman and artist was ruined.Synopsis: The story of a Renaissance painter whose reputation was destroyed, because she took the man who raped her to court.

Series title:
Skirt through History
TV Transmissions
Date: 03 June 1994Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30-22:00Runtime: 30 mins Network - Colour - Sound