Artemisia Gentileschi The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art |
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| Author:
| Garrard, Mary D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-04050-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1989 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and work shows that her powerfully original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart radically from traditional interpretations of the same themes.
Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and work shows that her powerfully original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart radically from traditional interpretations of the same themes.