Artemisia Gentileschi : the image of the female hero in Italian Baroque art / by Mary D. Garrard.
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 treatmen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[1989]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 607 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-591) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691040508 9780691040509 0691002851 9780691002859 |