19 Jun “Artemisia Gentileschi” From Scripta Maneant Editore with Tecnostampa, Loreto, Italy.
The complete works of the painter who established herself as the first successful female artist in the history of Western art.
Rediscovered masterpieces, unpublished works, and exclusive images from the Scripta Maneant photo shoot.
Iconic and exemplary works from private collections or of disputed attribution give life to the most complete and up-to-date volume dedicated to the painter.
Artemisia Gentileschi: her practice, her intellectual, literary, scientific, and musical acquaintances in Rome, Florence, Venice, London, and Naples.
This unprecedented approach to the figure of the painter focuses on her artistic experience, often overshadowed by her biography, thanks to the account of important and little-known international commissions.
Artemisia tells her own story in her own words, as a strong-willed, astute, and skilled entrepreneur, thanks to the appendix with a selection and commentary on the artist’s letters to her friend Galileo Galilei and her main clients.
Artemisia Gentileschi has been the subject of privileged attention in recent decades. However, research dedicated to her has often returned a stereotypical and reductive image of the painter’s artistic universe and personality. Gentileschi’s professional figure, able to move with great success in what we now call the art system, finally finds unprecedented dignity. New attributions from private collections accompany the painter’s masterpieces, reconstructing the picture of the international commissions that established her as a leading figure in European Baroque art, in the most complete and up-to-date volume dedicated to the artist. The innovative power of Artemisia’s language and the exceptional nature of her iconographic choices reveal the documented interests and literary, scientific, and musical acquaintances that the painter skillfully cultivated in every city she visited.
Artemisia Gentileschi is unique in this historical period. Although she devoted herself to an art considered masculine, her works had a great impact on Baroque painting, contributing to the spread of Caravaggism in Italy and Europe, and she is considered one of the most important painters of the 17th century. She was able to establish herself in a world dominated by men, achieving success thanks to her talent and courage. Artemisia is remembered not only for her artistic talent, but also for her courage in reporting a rape she suffered at a young age and for fighting to assert her right to be a painter at a time when women had limited access to professions.
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
The daughter of a painter from Pisa, Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, she was born in Rome on July 8, 1593. In the Roman artistic milieu, now motherless, Orazio introduced her to painting, making the most of his daughter’s precocious talent under his guidance, so that she first became his assistant and then the artist we know today.
The influence of Caravaggio, as with many other late Renaissance artists, was particularly strong in Artemisia, both in her technique and, assimilating Caravaggio’s realism, in her favorite subjects.
Personal events, which nevertheless wrongly made her more famous than her extraordinary talent as a painter, prompted her to move to Florence, where she enjoyed flattering success and devoted her best energies to gathering around her the most culturally vibrant minds and the most open intellects, weaving a dense network of relationships and exchanges that later took her to Venice, London, and Naples.
ARTEMISIA
Edited by: Asia Graziano
with texts by
Sheila Barker
Gragory Buchakjian
Claudio Strinati
Pages: 320
300 images with unpublished gigapixel shots and 1:1 scale
exclusive photo campaign
Closed size: 27.5 x 38 cm
Binding: thread stitching
with hardcover
Publisher:
Scripta Maneant Edizioni
https://www.scriptamaneant.com/sm/
Printing:
Tecnostampa
Loreto (AN) Trevi (PG) Italy
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