Artemisia Gentileschi: the language of painting
"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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]
Yale Univ. Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Locker, Jesse, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting] (2016) (Harris, Ann Sutherland)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gentileschi, Artemisia 1593-1653
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Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-1652 or 1653)
Criticism and interpretation
B Women painters (Italy) 17th century B Painting, Italian 17th century Criticism and interpretation |
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| Summary: | "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 paintings, Locker agrues for her important place in the cutlural dialogue of the seventeenth century"-- Introduction -- 1. Artemisia, Spain, and the Maniera devota -- 2. Nova Thalia : Artemisia and the Venetian academies -- 3. Donne forti ed intrepidi : Artemisia and Venetian painting -- 4. Artemisia in the eyes of the Neapolitan poets -- 5. L'immagine del'autrice: Artemisia's self-portraits revisited -- 6. L'immortale Artemisia and her eighteenth-century biographers -- Postscript |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. [219] - 230 |
| ISBN: | 0300185111 |