Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque
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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.
Author: Mary D. Garrard
Format: Paperback, 664 pages, 216mm x 267mm, 2013 g
Published: 1991, Princeton University Press, United States
Genre: Fine Arts / Art History
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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: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque