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Artemisia Gentileschi / Sheila Barker.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Illuminating women artists. Renaissance and Baroque.Publisher: Los Angeles : Getty Publications, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 144 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1606067338
  • 9781606067338
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ND623 .G364 B37 2022
Contents:
Introduction: Finding female role models in Counter-Reformation Rome -- 'Mizia': the artist's youth in Rome -- The excellence of women at the Medici court -- A loquacious and beautiful art -- Operating on a world stage: Naples to London and back.
Summary: The life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was as exceptional as her paintings. She was a child prodigy, raised without a mother by her artist father, a follower of Caravaggio, under whom she apprenticed. This is the first biography to be written by an authority on Gentileschi since 1999 and includes five newly discovered paintings.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks ND623 .G364 B37 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001501914

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Finding female role models in Counter-Reformation Rome -- 'Mizia': the artist's youth in Rome -- The excellence of women at the Medici court -- A loquacious and beautiful art -- Operating on a world stage: Naples to London and back.

The life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was as exceptional as her paintings. She was a child prodigy, raised without a mother by her artist father, a follower of Caravaggio, under whom she apprenticed. This is the first biography to be written by an authority on Gentileschi since 1999 and includes five newly discovered paintings.

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