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very good dust-jacket, very good large and heavy red cloth, upper area of pages is slightly wavy to the touch, but book appears little used if at all. GARRARD, MARY D. Artemisia Gentileschi: the image of the female hero in Italian Baroque art. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989, xxv, 607pp., . Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1662 - Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and work shows that her powerfully original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart radically from traditional interpretations of the same themes. - CONTENTS: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Artemisia Gentileschi in her time: life and art. Rome, 1593-c. 1613 ; Florence, 1614-1620 ; Genoa, Venice, and Rome, 1620-c. 1630 ; Naples, 1630-c. 1638 ; England, 1638-c. 1641 ; Naples, 1642-1652 -- Part II. Historical feminism and female iconography. Humanists and feminists. The Femme Forte ; The imagery of strong women -- Part III. Artemisia Gentileschi's heroic women. Susanna ; Lucretia and Cleopatra ; Judith ; The allegory of painting -- Appendices / English translations of documents from the original Italian texts by Efrem G. Calingaert, edited by Mary D. Garrard. Appendix A. The letters of Artemisia Gentileschi ; Appendix B. Testimony of the rape trial of 1612 -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index. 9780691040509 ISBN 0691040508. Seller Inventory # 94552
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