Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity (The Discovery Series) (Volume 11)

Mary D. Garrard, author of the acclaimed __Artemisia Gentileschi,__ furthers her study of the seventeenth-century artist in this groundbreaking investigation of two little-known paintings. Taking as case studies the Seville __Mary Magdalene__ and the Burghley House __Susanna and the Elders,__ paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, Garrard examines the ways that identity, gender, and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and connoisseurship that have surrounded it. "Mary D. Garrard, author of the acclaimed Artemisia Gentileschi, furthers her study of the seventeenth-century artist in this groundbreaking investigation of two little-known paintings. Taking as case studies the Seville Mary Magdalene and the Burghley House Susanna and the Elders, paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, Garrard examines the ways that identity, gender, and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and connoisseurship that have surrounded it. Garrard explains differences in the artist's presentation of women in the two paintings as motivated by the same thing: Artemisia's intense ambition to excel as an artist in a culture that insisted upon sexualizing her identity. She describes the complex interaction between the artist and her audience as a reactive dynamic of creation and reception that continues into the present era."--BOOK JACKET. CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION Connoisseurship in a New Key GENDER AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ARTISTIC IDENTITY GENDER AND THE PERSONAL FORMATION OF ARTISTIC IDENTITY ONE 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 TWO 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 NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX

Mary D. Garrard, author of the acclaimed Artemisia Gentileschi, furthers her study of the seventeenth-century artist in this groundbreaking investigation of two little-known paintings. Taking as case studies the Seville Mary Magdalene and the Burghley House Susanna and the Elders, paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, Garrard examines the ways that identity, gender, and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and connoisseurship that have surrounded it.

Taking as case studies two paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, this text examines the ways that identity, gender and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and conoisseurship that have surrounded it. Thanks to the prominence of the early Susanna and the Judiths, Artemisia's female characters are best known as forceful women who energetically protest their circumstances or do something radical to improve them.