num_pages: 640
description: 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.
language: English
title: Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art
titlecomplete: Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art
characters: Artemisia Gentileschi
genres: Art History, Biography Memoir, Art, Gender, Nonfiction, History, Feminism, Italy, Historical, Biography
ratings_count: 290
publisher: Princeton University Press