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The first full, factual account of Artemisia's life, The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, was published in 1989 by Mary Garrard, a feminist art historian. She then published a second, smaller book entitled Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity in 2001 that explored the artist's work ...
Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Most were painters, but 2 were called intagliatrici, 4 (all Milanesi) ricamatrici, Properzia De'Rossi was the sole scultrice. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Properzia de' Rossi (1490-1530) – sculptor, the only woman to receive a biography in 1st edition of Vasari 's Lives of the Artists .
Floria Sigismondi (born 1965), Italian-Canadian photographer; Luisa Silei (1825–1898), landscape painter; Roberta Silva (born 1971), Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist; Nerina Simi (1890–1987), painter, art teacher; Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665), Baroque painter; Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783), painter; Maria Spanò ...
The stormy chiaroscuro paintings of Caravaggio and the robust, illusionistic paintings of the Bolognese Carracci family gave rise to the baroque period in Italian art. Domenichino , Francesco Albani , and later Andrea Sacchi were among those who carried out the classical implications in the art of the Carracci.
The Mona Lisa [a] is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, [4] [5] it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world."
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552–11 August 1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome.She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting.