Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art

Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as 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 work shows that her original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart radically from traditional interpretations of the same themes.

• | Author: Mary D. Garrard
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 1991
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780691002859
• | ISBN-10: 0691002851