Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists.
Content | Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art. |
Author | Jonathan Jones is art critic for The Guardian and the author of Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy, as well as The Loves of the Artists: Art and Passion in the Renaissance and The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance. |
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Specs | ISBN: 978 17 8627 609 4 |
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age. Gentileschi was shamed in a..
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