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Artemisia Gentileschi

Sheila Barker

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English
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
01 February 2022
Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career. Bringing to light recent archival discoveries and newly attributed paintings, this book highlights Gentileschi's enterprising and original engagement with emerging feminist notions of the value and dignity of womanhood.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, Artemisia Gentileschi brings to life the extraordinary story of this Italian artist, placing her within a socio-historical context. Sheila Barker weaves the story with in-depth discussions of key artworks, examining them in terms of their iconographies and technical characteristics in order to portray the developments in Gentileschi’s approach to her craft and the gradual evolution of her expressive goals and techniques. 
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Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 250mm,  Width: 190mm, 
ISBN:   9781848224544
ISBN 10:   1848224540
Series:   Illuminating Women Artists
Pages:   144
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction: Female Role Models in Counter-Reformation Rome; Chapter 1: 'Mizia': The Artist's Youth in Rome; Chapter 2: The Excellence of Women at the Medici Court; Chapter 3: The Pursuit of a Loquacious and Beautiful Art; Chapter 4: Operating on a World Stage: Naples to London; Epilogue; List of Illustrations; Bibliography

Sheila Barker is an art historian and writer. She is the founding director of the Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists at the Medici Archive Project. Her publications include the exhibition catalogue The Immensity of the Universe in the Art of Giovanna Garzoni as well as the edited volumes Artemisia Gentileschi in a Changing Light, Women Artists in Early Modern Italy, and Artiste nel chiostro (co-edited with Luciano Cinelli).

Reviews for Artemisia Gentileschi

'Sheila Barker's book provides a compelling and lively introduction to this endlessly fascinating, complex, and essential painter whose ambitious work challenged the gender-restricting conventions of her day by asserting her claim to be the equal of her male colleagues.' - Keith Christiansen, Curator Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art


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