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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.

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If you read only one art history book this year, it should be Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi. --Raymond B. Waddington, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Garrard brings her subject vividly to life as few scholars of the period have done for other artists.... [Her] powerfully argued, intelligent appreciation of every facet of Gentileschi's difficult life and artistic contribution will bring the artist a large, new audience. --Ann Sutherland Harris, The Women's Review of Books [This book] is doubly welcome, both for its hitherto underrehearsed subject--one of the most accomplished female practitioners in the history of art--and for the exceptionally keen and questing intelligence which the author brings to her task. --John Gash, Art in America [This book] is doubly welcome, both for its hitherto underrehearsed subject--one of the most accomplished female practitioners in the history of art--and for the exceptionally keen and questing intelligence which the author brings to her task. --John Gash, Art in America Garrard brings her subject vividly to life as few scholars of the period have done for other artists... [Her] powerfully argued, intelligent appreciation of every facet of Gentileschi's difficult life and artistic contribution will bring the artist a large, new audience. --Ann Sutherland Harris, The Women's Review of Books If you read only one art history book this year, it should be Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi. --Raymond B. Waddington, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

[This book] is doubly welcome, both for its hitherto underrehearsed subject--one of the most accomplished female practitioners in the history of art--and for the exceptionally keen and questing intelligence which the author brings to her task. -- John Gash Art in America Garrard brings her subject vividly to life as few scholars of the period have done for other artists... [Her] powerfully argued, intelligent appreciation of every facet of Gentileschi's difficult life and artistic contribution will bring the artist a large, new audience. -- Ann Sutherland Harris The Women's Review of Books If you read only one art history book this year, it should be Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi. -- Raymond B. Waddington Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

[This book] is doubly welcome, both for its hitherto underrehearsed subject--one of the most accomplished female practitioners in the history of art--and for the exceptionally keen and questing intelligence which the author brings to her task. -- John Gash Art in America Garrard brings her subject vividly to life as few scholars of the period have done for other artists... [Her] powerfully argued, intelligent appreciation of every facet of Gentileschi's difficult life and artistic contribution will bring the artist a large, new audience. -- Ann Sutherland Harris The Women's Review of Books If you read only one art history book this year, it should be Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi. -- Raymond B. Waddington Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

[This book] is doubly welcome, both for its hitherto underrehearsed subject--one of the most accomplished female practitioners in the history of art--and for the exceptionally keen and questing intelligence which the author brings to her task. -- John Gash, Art in America Garrard brings her subject vividly to life as few scholars of the period have done for other artists... [Her] powerfully argued, intelligent appreciation of every facet of Gentileschi's difficult life and artistic contribution will bring the artist a large, new audience. -- Ann Sutherland Harris, The Women's Review of Books If you read only one art history book this year, it should be Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi. -- Raymond B. Waddington, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

If you read only one art history book this year, it should be Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi. --Raymond B. Waddington, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Garrard brings her subject vividly to life as few scholars of the period have done for other artists.... [Her] powerfully argued, intelligent appreciation of every facet of Gentileschi's difficult life and artistic contribution will bring the artist a large, new audience. --Ann Sutherland Harris, The Women's Review of Books [This book] is doubly welcome, both for its hitherto underrehearsed subject--one of the most accomplished female practitioners in the history of art--and for the exceptionally keen and questing intelligence which the author brings to her task. --John Gash, Art in America

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