Artemisia Gentileschi war die größte Künstlerin des Barock und eine der brillantesten Anhängerinnen des großen Caravaggio. Als junge Frau wurde sie von ihrem Tutor vergewaltigt und musste dann einen siebenmonatigen Prozess durchlaufen, bei dem sie von den Behörden brutal untersucht wurde. Gentileschi wurde in einer Kultur beschämt, in der Ehre alles war. Doch sie entwickelte sich zu einer der gefragtesten Künstlerinnen des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts. Gentileschis Kunst vermittelte eine starke persönliche Vision. Wie Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois oder Tracey Emin hat sie ihr Leben in ihre Kunst investiert.
Jonathan Jones is art critic for The Guardian and the author of Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy, as well as The Loves of the Artists: Art and Passion in the Renaissance and The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance.
Zusammenfassung
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day.
As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Yet she went on to become one of the most sought-after artists of the seventeenth century. Gentileschi's art communicated a powerful personal vision. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art.
'Lives of the Artists'is a new series of brief artists biographies from Laurence King Publishing. The series takes as its inspiration Giorgio Vasari's five-hundred-year-old masterwork, updating it with modern takes on the lives of key artists past and present. Focusing on the life of the artist rather than examining their work, each book also includes key images illustrating the artist's life.
Vorwort
Launching the 'Lives the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the most-popular artists
