| Description |
xxii, 179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-167) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Connoisseurship in a New Key -- Gender and the Social Construction of Artistic Identity -- Gender and the Personal Formation of Artistic Identity --1. 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 --2. 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. |
| Subject |
Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 1653 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| ISBN |
0520224264 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520228413 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780520224261 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520228412 paperback alkaline paper |
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