this flick be a blow to me . i guess little girl should aspire to be nothing more than swimsuit model and home maker or mistress and since that seem to be all they will ever be portray a anyway . it be truly sadden to see an artist work and life be so unjustly misinterpretated . inconcievably ( or perhaps it should have be expect ) and artemisia entire character and all that she stand for and have be reduce to a standard hollywood and female character while a pitiful and physically flawless and helpless little creature and display none of the character traits that actually get her that place in history which be be mutilate here . sadder yet and be to see that a great part of the audience be too badly educate in the area to comprehend the incredible gap between the message convey in the film and and reality . to portray the artist a someone in love with her real life rapist and someone whom she in reality accuse of rap her even when under torture and just plain piss me off . if the director have nothing more substantial to say she should have refrain from base her story on a real person .