Bibliograph

Artemisia Gentileschi, Sheila Barker

Type

Label

Artemisia Gentileschi, Sheila Barker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Artemisia Gentileschi

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1241245037

Responsibility statement

Sheila Barker

Series statement

Illuminating women artists. Renaissance and Baroque

Summary

The life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was as exceptional as her paintings. She was a child prodigy, raised without a mother by her artist father, a follower of Caravaggio, under whom she apprenticed. This is the first biography to be written by an authority on Gentileschi since 1999 and includes five newly discovered paintings

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Finding female role models in Counter-Reformation Rome -- 'Mizia': the artist's youth in Rome -- The excellence of women at the Medici court -- A loquacious and beautiful art -- Operating on a world stage: Naples to London and back

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