Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622 : the shaping and reshaping of an artistic identity

Author(s)

• Garrard, Mary D.

Bibliographic Information

Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622 : the shaping and reshaping of an artistic identity

Mary D. Garrard

（Discovery series, 11）

University of California Press, c2001

• : pbk : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780520224261

Description

Mary D. Garrard, author of the acclaimed Artemisia Gentileschi, furthers her study of the seventeenth-century artist in this ground-breaking investigation of two little-known paintings. Taking as case studies the Seville Mary Magdalene and the Burghley House Susanna and the Elders, paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia. Garrard examines the ways that identity, gender, and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and connoisseurship that have surrounded it.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Connoisseurship in a New Key Gender and the Social Construction of Artistic Identity Gender and the Personal Formation of Artistic Identity PART ONE: A New Magdalen A Tale of Two Pictures Artemisia and Mary Magdalene The Example of Caravaggio The Example of Michelangelo Artemisia as the Allegory of Painting The Magdalen as Melancholy The Reappropriation of Gendered Melancholy PART TWO: The Burghley House Susanna A Problem Picture Susanna in the Garden of Love Susanna as Social Scapegoat The Picture: Technical Analysis and Documentation Collaboration or Unauthorized Alteration? Artemisia and Susanna, Public and Audience Conclusion: The Shaping of a Complex Identity Notes Works Cited Index

Volume

: pbk : alk. paper ISBN 9780520228412

Description

Mary D. Garrard, author of the acclaimed Artemisia Gentileschi, furthers her study of the seventeenth-century artist in this groundbreaking investigation of two little-known paintings. Taking as case studies the Seville Mary Magdalene and the Burghley House Susanna and the Elders, paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, Garrard examines the ways that identity, gender, and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and connoisseurship that have surrounded it.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Connoisseurship in a New Key Gender and the Social Construction of Artistic Identity Gender and the Personal Formation of Artistic Identity PART ONE: A New Magdalen A Tale of Two Pictures Artemisia and Mary Magdalene The Example of Caravaggio The Example of Michelangelo Artemisia as the Allegory of Painting The Magdalen as Melancholy The Reappropriation of Gendered Melancholy PART TWO: The Burghley House Susanna A Problem Picture Susanna in the Garden of Love Susanna as Social Scapegoat The Picture: Technical Analysis and Documentation Collaboration or Unauthorized Alteration? Artemisia and Susanna, Public and Audience Conclusion: The Shaping of a Complex Identity Notes Works Cited Index

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Details

• NCID: BA51525173
• ISBN:
  • 0520224264
  • 0520228413
• LCCN: 00056385
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 179 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ND623.G364
  • DC21 : 759.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 3 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA35714448