TY - BOOK AU - Barker,Sheila AU - Gentileschi,Artemisia TI - Artemisia Gentileschi T2 - Illuminating women artists. Renaissance and Baroque SN - 1606067338 AV - ND623 .G364 B37 2022 PY - 2022///] CY - Los Angeles PB - Getty Publications KW - Gentileschi, Artemisia, KW - Painters KW - Italy KW - Biography KW - Painting, Baroque KW - Painting, Italian KW - 17th century KW - Women painters N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -