Artemisia Gentileschi: the language of painting

Abstract

"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 argues for her important place in the cultural dialogue of the seventeenth century." -- Inside front dustjacket flap.

Contents

Introduction -- Artemisia, Spain, and the Maniera devota -- Nova Thalia: Artemisia and the Venetian academies -- Donne forti ed intrepidi: Artemisia and Venetian painting -- Artemisia in the eyes of the Neapolitan poets -- L'immagine dell'autrice: Artemisia's self-portraits revisited -- L'immortale Artemisia and her eighteenth-century biographers -- Postscript.