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Article: Anna Banti's Artemisia: Reinscribing the female gaze in Italian literature.
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- West Virginia University Philological Papers
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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In her "Revising the Past: Feminist Historians/Historical Fictions" Carol Lazzaro-Weis has noted that a historical novel "tells the story of the invisible, the story that traditional historiography does not include." (1) By writing a historical novel on Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-?) at a time when few were the certain historical facts about the painter, and very limited was the appreciation of her art work, Anna Banti (1895-1985). an art historian by training and by profession, was able to contribute not only to the reestablishment of Artemisia's reputation as an artist and as a woman, but also to the postulation of a tradition of women artists and intellectuals.