Artemisia Gentileschi

by Garrard, Mary D.

• ISBN13: 9780691002859
• ISBN10: 0691002851
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xxiii
Introduction	3	(10)
PART I
Artemisia Gentileschi in Her Time: Life and Art	13	(128)
Rome, 1593--c. 1613	13	(21)
Florence, 1614--1620	34	(20)
Genoa, Venice, and Rome, 1620--c. 1630	54	(34)
Naples, 1630--c. 1638	88	(22)
England, 1638--c. 1641	110	(11)
Naples, 1642--1652	121	(20)
PART II
Historical Feminism and Female Iconography	141	(42)
Humanists and Feminists	141	(13)
The Femme Forte	154	(17)
The Imagery of Strong Women	171	(12)
PART III Artemisia Gentileschi's Heroic Women
Susanna	183	(27)
Lucretia and Cleopatra	210	(68)
Lucretia	216	(23)
Rembrandt and the Gentileschi	239	(5)
Cleopatra	244	(34)
Judith	278	(59)
The Allegory of Painting	337	(152)
APPENDICES
Efrem G. Calingaert
Mary D. Garrard
Appendix A. The Letters of Artemisia Gentileschi	373	(30)
Appendix B. Testimony of the Rape Trial of 1612	403	(86)
Notes	489	(80)
Works Cited	569	(24)
Index	593