Artemisia gentileschi: the image of the female hero in italian baroque art
Auteur :
Garrard, Mary D.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691002859
Date de publication :
21 janv. 1991
Dimensions :
26,7 x 21,6 cm
Poids :
2013 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.