Artemisia Gentileschi The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art

Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most 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 first full-length study of her life and work shows that her powerfully original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart radically from traditional interpretations of the same themes.Garrard, Mary D. is the author of 'Artemisia Gentileschi The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art', published 1991 under ISBN 9780691002859 and ISBN 0691002851.