Artemisia Gentileschi : the language of painting
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780300185119
Description: "This beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book provides a revolutionary look at Artemisia's later career, refuting longstanding assumptions about the artist. The fact that she was semi-illiterate has erroneously led scholars to assume a lack of literary and cultural education on her part. Stressing the importance of orality in Baroque culture and in Artemisia's paitnigns, Locker agrues for her important place in the cutlural dialogue of the seventeenth century." -- Inside front dustjacket flap.