Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi's Artemisia Gentileschi: A New Vision is a groundbreaking book that explores the artist's pictorial intelligence, career, and engagement with feminist notions. It highlights recent archival discoveries and newly attributed paintings, showcasing Gentileschi's innovative approach to her craft and the evolution of her expressive goals. The book is beautifully illustrated and provides in-depth discussions of key artworks, placing Gentileschi within a socio-historical context.

Format: Hardback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2022
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist s pictorial intelligence,as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career. Bringing to light recent archival discoveries and newly attributed paintings,this book highlights Gentileschi s enterprising and original engagement with emerging feminist notions of the value and dignity of womanhood.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, Artemisia Gentileschi brings to life the extraordinary story of this Italian artist,placing her within a socio-historical context. Sheila Barker weaves the story with in-depth discussions of key artworks,examining them in terms of their iconographies and technical characteristics in order to portray the developments in Gentileschis approach to her craft and the gradual evolution of her expressive goals and techniques.

Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist s pictorial intelligence,as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career. Bringing to light recent archival discoveries and newly attributed paintings,this book highlights Gentileschi s enterprising and original engagement with emerging feminist notions of the value and dignity of womanhood.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, Artemisia Gentileschi brings to life the extraordinary story of this Italian artist,placing her within a socio-historical context. Sheila Barker weaves the story with in-depth discussions of key artworks,examining them in terms of their iconographies and technical characteristics in order to portray the developments in Gentileschis approach to her craft and the gradual evolution of her expressive goals and techniques.

Weight: 790g
Dimension: 199 x 257 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781848224544