Artemisia Gentileschi
Subtitle: the image of the female hero in Italian Baroque Art
By: Mary D. Garrard.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
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.