Artemisia Gentileschi: the language of painting

"This beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book provides a revolutionary look at Artemisia's later career, refuting longstanding assumptions about the artist. The fact that she was semi-illiterate has erroneously led scholars to assume a lack of literary and cultural education on...

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Main Author: Locker, Jesse (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press [2015]
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Online Access:DE-255
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Summary:"This beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book provides a revolutionary look at Artemisia's later career, refuting longstanding assumptions about the artist. The fact that she was semi-illiterate has erroneously led scholars to assume a lack of literary and cultural education on her part. Stressing the importance of orality in Baroque culture and in Artemisia's paintings, Locker agrues for her important place in the cultural dialogue of the seventeenth century"--Inside front dustjacket flap
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 236 Seiten) 114 Illustrationen (chiefly color), Porträts
ISBN:0300256973
9780300256970
DOI:10.37862/aaeportal.00192

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