Front cover featuring a dramatically lit female figure — Artemisia Gentileschi.
Interior spread of Baroque narrative paintings with commentary — Artemisia Gentileschi.
Interior spread with a woman playing a lute and a figure study — Artemisia Gentileschi.
Interior spread with a dramatic scene of two women and a man — Artemisia Gentileschi.
Front cover featuring a dramatically lit female figure — Artemisia Gentileschi.
Interior spread of Baroque narrative paintings with commentary — Artemisia Gentileschi.
Interior spread with a woman playing a lute and a figure study — Artemisia Gentileschi.
Interior spread with a dramatic scene of two women and a man — Artemisia Gentileschi.
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Artemisia Gentileschi

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s career deserves to be understood through her decisions as a painter. Sheila Barker brings recent scholarship and archival discoveries into an accessible study of her work, considering how pictorial intelligence, ambition and professional enterprise shaped an exceptional artistic life.

Part of the Illuminating Women Artists series, this illustrated volume examines key paintings through their subjects, techniques and changing expressive aims. It also situates Gentileschi within the social circumstances of her time, giving readers a fuller account than a biography built around a single episode. For those interested in the emotional force of Baroque painting, the book provides a valuable way to look more carefully: dramatic narratives become occasions to consider agency, invention and the means by which an artist established her own voice.

Book Details

  • Author / editor: Sheila Barker
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries
  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781848224544

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