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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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An early icon of feminist art history, the work of Artemisia Gentileschi has been largely obscured by the sensational details of her life. In this volume the contributors attempt to give a more balanced view & to approach a genuine appreciation of Artemisia's considerable artistic talents. One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of Italian baroque painters. Featured alongside her father, Orazio Gentileschi, in a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artemisia has continued to stir interest though her position in the canon remains precarious, in part because her sensationalized life history has overshadowed her art. In The Artemisia Files, Mieke Bal and her coauthors look squarely at this early icon of feminist art history and the question of her status as an artist. Considering the events that shaped her life and reputation--her relationship to her father and her role as the victim in a highly publicized rape case during which she was tortured into giving evidence--the authors make the case that Artemisia's importance is due to more than her role as a poster child in the feminist attack on traditional art history; here, Artemisia emerges more fully as a highly original artist whose work is greater than the sum of the events that have traditionally defined her. The fresh, engaging discourse in The Artemisia Files will help to both renew the reputation of this artist on the merit of her work and establish her rightful place in the history of art.

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Artemisia Gentileschi was a prominent painter in the Italian Baroque style and the most influential female artist of her day. Gentileschi is known for spreading Caravaggio's popular dramatic style throughout Italy and expanding what the world thought possible of female artists. She notably represented women as powerful and courageous, subverting contemporary stereotypes of feminine weakness and timidity. This volume presents texts illuminating Gentileschi's life and career, from excerpts of testimonies from her 1612 rape trial, to letters she wrote to prominent friends and acquaintances like Galileo, to contemporary biographies. These writings provide a fascinating look at the artist who remains a key figure in feminist art histories.

Painting --- correspondence --- biographies [documents] --- figures [representations] --- Gentileschi, Artemisia --- Painters --- Women painters --- Rape victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Trials (Rape) --- Rape --- Female sexual abuse victims --- Sexual violence victims --- Victims of sex crimes --- Victims of crimes --- Female rape victims --- Women artists --- Artists --- History --- Gentileschi, Artemisia, --- Tassi, Agostino, --- Buonamici, Agostino, --- Gentileschi Lomi, Artemisia, --- Lomi, Artemisia Gentileschi, --- Friends and associates --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- biographies [literary works]

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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

Women painters --- Painting, Italian --- Italian painting --- Gentileschi, Artemisia, --- Gentileschi Lomi, Artemisia, --- Lomi, Artemisia Gentileschi, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Italy --- Intellectual life --- Gentileschi, Artemisia --- Pictorial works. --- art criticism --- Painting --- Aesthetics of art --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Painters --- Women artists --- vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- Bricci, Plautilla --- Corvini, Maddalena --- Sirani, Elisabetta --- Vaiani, Anna Maria --- Vezzi, Virginia --- 17de eeuw --- Italië --- vrouwelijke kunstenaars. --- Gentileschi, Artemisia. --- Bricci, Plautilla. --- Corvini, Maddalena. --- Vaiani, Anna Maria. --- Vezzi, Virginia. --- Sirani, Elisabetta. --- 17de eeuw. --- Italië.

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Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she is celebrated by feminist critics and scholars. This book breaks new ground by placing Gentileschi in the context of women's political history. Mary D. Garrard shows that Gentileschi most likely knew or knew about contemporary writers such as the Venetian feminists Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti. She discusses recently discovered paintings, offers fresh perspectives on known works and examines the artist anew in the context of feminist history. This beautifully illustrated book gives a full portrait of a strong woman artist who fought back through her art

Feminism and art --- Art and feminism --- Art --- History --- Gentileschi, Artemisia, --- Gentileschi Lomi, Artemisia, --- Lomi, Artemisia Gentileschi, --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of civilization --- women [female humans] --- Gentileschi, Artemisia --- Europe --- Feminism and art. --- Women painters --- Women painters. --- 1600-1699. --- Europe. --- Italy. --- Schilderkunst ; Barok --- Thema's in de schilderkunst ; zelfportretten van vrouwen --- Kunst en maatschappij ; kunst van vrouwen --- Schilderkunst ; iconografie ; bijbelverhalen ; mythen --- Gentileschi, Artemisia 1593-1654 of later) (°Rome, Italië) --- 75.07 --- Schilderkunst ; schilders A-Z --- Kunst en feminisme --- Féminisme et art --- Gentileschi, Artemisia Lomi --- vrouwelijke kunstenaars. --- seksualiteit. --- feminisme. --- Gentileschi, Artemisia. --- 17de eeuw. --- Europa. --- vrouwengeschiedenis --- vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- seksualiteit --- feminisme --- 17de eeuw --- Europa --- Gentileschi, Artemisia - 1593-1652 or 1653