Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi

By Herself and Others

Artemisia Gentilesch, Orazio Gentileschi, Cristofano Bronzini, Théodore Turquet de Mayerne, Filippo Baldinucci (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2021
Pallas Athene Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84368-196-0 (ISBN)

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Texts by and about the pioneering woman artist of the Baroque, Artemisia Gentileschi, some printed for the first time in English.

Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi presents a fascinating look at the famous Baroque artist. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) was an Italian painter known for the naturalism with which she depicted the female body and her use of rich colours and chiaroscuro. Born in Rome, she was trained by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi, and was working professionally by the time she was a teenager. In a period when women artists very rarely achieved success in their field, she was commissioned by royalty across Europe and was the first woman to become a member of Florence’s prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, later becoming an educator in the arts. Lending further insight into the extraordinary life of this trailblazing artist, this volume presents an absorbing collection of letters, biographies, and court testimonies supplemented with essays written by contemporaries, several of which are published here in English for the first time. The vivid illustrations include three works that have only recently been attributed to Gentileschi. An introduction by Sheila Barker, founding director of the Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists, contextualises these texts and discusses Gentileschi’s legacy.

Introduction
SHEILA BARKER
p. 9
Extracts from the testimony at the trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of Artemisia Gentileschi, 1612
p. 39
Letter to Christine de Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, 1612
ORAZIO GENTILESCHI
p. 65
Biography of Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1618-19
CRISTOFANO BRONZINI
p. 75
Letter to Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1620
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
p. 79
Letters to Francesco Maria Maringhi, 1620
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
& PIERANTONIO STIATTESI
p. 83
Letters to Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1630-37
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
p. 105
Letter to Galileo Galilei, 1635
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
p. 115
Letter to Andrea Cioli,
Secretary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1636
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
p. 123
Letter to Francesco d’Este, Duke of Modena, 1639
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
p. 127
Letters to Don Antonio Ruffo, 1649-51
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
p. 131
Life of Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1682
FILIPPO BALDINUCCI
p. 151
Memorial of Artemisia Gentileschi, 1792
AVERARDO DE’ MEDICI
p. 161
Artemisia Gentileschi, 1792
ALESSANDRO MORRONA
p. 185
List of illustrations
p. 190

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Lives of the Artists
Zusatzinfo	47 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	114 x 145 mm
Gewicht	202 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	1-84368-196-X / 184368196X
ISBN-13	978-1-84368-196-0 / 9781843681960
Zustand	Neuware