Full Description
Artemisia Gentileschi has been the subject of much attention in recent decades. Research dedicated to her has, however, often returned a stereotyped and reductive image of the artistic universe and personality of the painter. The professional figure of Gentileschi, who was able to move with great success in what we now call the art system, finally finds new dignity. Unpublished attributions from private collections are flanked by the painter's masterpieces, reconstructing the framework of the international commissions that consecrated her as a protagonist of the European Baroque, in the most complete and up-to-date volume dedicated to the artist. The innovative charge of language and the exceptional nature of Artemisia's iconographic choices reveal the documented interests and literary, scientific and musical frequentations that the painter skilfully cultivated in every city that recorded her passage.
Text in English and Italian.
Contents
Publisher's Note - Federico Ferrari
Artemisia's Challenge - Asia Graziano
On Her Own Terms - Claudio Strinati
Our Lives with Artemisia - Gregory Buchakjian
The Roman Education of the Talented Painter
Success and Acknowledgement in Medici Florence
Lights and Shadows of the Venetian Stay
The Neapolitan Consecration
Caritas Romana, or the Celebration of Feminine Virtue
Artemisia's Letters
Artemisia in the Archives - Sheila Barker
Bibliography
Index of the Artworks by Artemisia Gentileschi
