Artemisia - by Asia Graziano & Sheila Barker & Gregory Buchakjan & Claudio Strinati (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Scripta Maneant is proud to present this 320-page magnum opus on the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most accomplished 17th-century artists and an icon among women artists of all time. Text in English and Italian.

Artemisia Gentileschi has been the subject of much attention in recent decades. Research dedicated to her has, however, often returned a stereotyped and reductive image of the artistic universe and personality of the painter. The professional figure of Gentileschi, who was able to move with great success in what we now call the art system, finally finds new dignity. Unpublished attributions from private collections are flanked by the painter's masterpieces, reconstructing the framework of the international commissions that consecrated her as a protagonist of the European Baroque, in the most complete and up-to-date volume dedicated to the artist. The innovative charge of language and the exceptional nature of Artemisia's iconographic choices reveal the documented interests and literary, scientific and musical frequentations that the painter skillfully cultivated in every city that recorded her passage.

Text in English and Italian.

About the Author

Asia Graziano is an Art historian. She has collaborated with important Italian museums and institutions including MAMBO - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna and UNESCO Italy. Curator of the BCBF 2019 Illustrators Exhibition and the Illustrators Annual. She is an author for publishing houses and art magazines. Sheila Barker's studies on Artemisia Gentileschi have been published in monographs, exhibition catalogues, essays and articles. She has also contributed to the scientific debate on the painter in numerous conferences and academic readings. Gregory Buchakjian is Director of the School of Visual Arts of the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in Beirut, and is responsible for the attribution to Artemisia Gentileschi of the two paintings in Palazzo Sursock, Hercules and Omphale and the Magdalene, damaged during the explosion of 4 August 2020. For almost 20 years, Claudio Strinati has been director of the Roman Museum Complex, he organized numerous important exhibitions and wrote hundreds of essays and books translated all over the world.