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The first full, factual account of Artemisia's life, The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, was published in 1989 by Mary Garrard, a feminist art historian. She then published a second, smaller book entitled Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity in 2001 that explored the artist's work ...
Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. [1] She was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna, who established an academy for other women artists.
Nicholson, Elizabeth S. G. "Diana Scultori." Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Milano: Skira, 2007; Rocco, Patricia. The Devout Hand: Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2017 “Splendid Japanese Women Artists of the Edo Period”.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
Judith beheading Holofernes was a very popular story amongst Baroque artists. Artemisia Gentileschi's contemporary Johann Liss stayed abreast with the Baroque style by including macabre imagery in his painting, Judith in the Tent of Holofernes. The painting shows the headless body of Holofernes slumping over.
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
Nicholson, Elizabeth S. G. "Diana Scultori." Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Milano: Skira, 2007; Rocco, Patricia. The Devout Hand: Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy, McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 2017 “Splendid Japanese Women Artists of the Edo Period”.
Italian Women Artists: from Renaissance to Baroque. (Milano: Skira, 2007). McTighe, Sheila. Foods and the Body in Italian Genre Paintings, about 1580: Campi, Passarotti, Carracci. The Art Bulletin, College Art Association 86 (2004):301–323, doi 10.2307/3177419. Anon. The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici. National Gallery of ...