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Artemisia Gentileschi in a changing light

Title
Artemisia Gentileschi in a changing light / edited by Sheila Barker.
Publication
  • London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Barker, Sheila, 1970-
  • Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 1653.
Description
247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 cm
Summary
New findings on the painter's life and oeuvre, studied through wide-ranging methodologies. Raised to the status of an international luminary by her contemporaries and now revered as one of the defining talents of the seventeenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi poses urgent questions for today's scholars. The recent outpouring of new attributions and archival discoveries has profoundly enriched our knowledge of the artist, but it has also complicated, and sometimes contradicted, the former storyline. If she was illiterate and unschooled, how did she befriend Galileo and court playwright Jacopo Cicognini? If she could not pay her bills, why did she continue to spend lavishly? How can we define her authorship if we admit workshop productions to her oeuvre? In these essays, an international cast of scholars and experts grapples with these problems, opening new paths of inquiry and laying bare their methodologies in fields as diverse as laboratory analysis, archival research, cultural history, literary analysis, and feminist art history. Among these approaches, connoisseurship takes center stage. By reconstructing the chronology and rationale of Artemisia's artistic iter, connoisseurship reveals the richness of her visual dialogues, including those with prominent contemporaries such as Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Vouet, Cristofano Allori, and Stanzione; with past artistic giants like Donatello and Michelangelo; and with the various hands who passed through her workshop as collaborators and assistants. These essays infuse our understanding of Artemisia with complexity and nuance, yet they also trace her characteristic mix of intelligence and verve in her art, her correspondence, and her deft social maneuvering, running like a thread through all stages of her life.
Series Statement
The Medici Archive Project
Uniform Title
Medici Archive Project series.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : what is true about Artemisia? / Sheila Barker -- Identifying Artemisia : the archive and the eye / Mary D. Garrard -- Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders (1610) in the Context of Counter-Reformation Rome / Patricia Simons -- Artemisia's money : the entrepreneurship of a woman artist in seventeenth-century Florence / Sheila Barker -- Artemisia Gentileschi : the literary formation of an unlearned artist / Jesse Locker -- Allegories of inclination and imitation at the Casa Buonarroti / Laura Camille Agoston -- Women artists in Casa Barberini : Plautilla Bricci, Maddalena Corvini, Artemisia Gentileschi, Anna Maria Vaiani, and Virginia da Vezzo / Consuelo Lollobrigida -- 'Il Pennello Virile' : Elisabetta Sirani and Artemisia Gentileschi as masculinized painters? / Adelina Modesti -- Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy and the Madonna of the Svezzamento : two masterpieces by Artemisia / Gianni Papi -- Deciphering Artemisia : three new narratives and how they expand our understanding / Judith W. Mann -- Unknown paintings by Artemisia in Naples, and new points regarding her daily life and Bottega / Riccardo Lattuada -- Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy by Artemisia Gentileschi : a technical study / Christina Currie, Livia Depuydt, Valentine Henderiks, Steven Saverwyns, and Ina Vanden Berghe.
Call Number
JQF 18-856
ISBN
  • 9781909400894
  • 1909400890
OCLC
1003196568
Title
Artemisia Gentileschi in a changing light / edited by Sheila Barker.
Publisher
London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The Medici Archive Project
Medici Archive Project series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1559-1789
Added Author
Barker, Sheila, 1970- editor.
Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 1653. Paintings. Selections.
Research Call Number
JQF 18-856
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