Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art
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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Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art
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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Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art

Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art

by Mary D. Garrard
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art

Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art

by Mary D. Garrard

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691002859
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 01/21/1991
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 664
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 10.50(h) x (d)
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