ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI

This beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book provides a revolutionary look at Artemisias later career, refuting longstan ding assumptions about the artist. The fact that she was semi-illiterate has erroneously led scholars to assume a lack of literary a nd cultural education on her part. Stressing the importance of orality in Baroque culture and in Artemisias paintings, Locker argue s for her important place in the cultural dialogue of the 17th century.