Artemisia Gentileschi : the story of a passion
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Artemisia Gentileschi : the story of a passion
24 ORE Cultura, 2011
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Exhibition catarogue
Catalogue of the exhibition held at Palazzo Reale, Milan, Sept. 23, 2011-Jan. 30, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-287)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome 1593-Naples 1652/53) was one of the few successful female painters of the Sixteenth century. She was adopted by the feminist movement as a standard-bearer and through a distorted psychoanalytic reading she was believed to be exacting her revenge through her cathartic brushstrokes, transforming herself into Judith slaying Holofernes/Agostino Tassi. Her paintings, along with those of her father were exhibited in Florence, Rome, New York and Saint Louis. The exhibition planned from September 2011 to January 2012 in Milan aims to, at last, make amends for the unfair favours attributed to her otherwise excellent father and will provide the visitor with each essential knot in the pictorial evolution of his vibrant and chameleon-like daughter. This book, along with the exhibition, will finally allow the reader and viewer to draw their own conclusion.
Table of Contents
- Her Roman beginnings between the work of her father and her gaze towards his colleagues and rivals The Florentine years
- The 1620s in Rome, her father in absentia, she herself becomes a leading figure among the surviving naturalists Nearly a quarter of a century of Neapolitan activity Public works and adequate national and international acclaim of her qualities
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