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Article: Artemisia: the invention of a `real' woman.(Anna Banti; Artemisia Gentileschi)
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- Italica
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- September 22, 2002
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In 1985, the Florentine daily La Nazione announced the death of Anna Banti with the heading "Addio Artemisia!" (Wood 119). Although Banti published many other novels, short stories, and art history essays, Artemisia was, and still is, her best-known work and arguably the source of her popularity.
The controversial Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593 and died around 1653 in Naples. Until the 1970s, she was generally considered a minor figure of her time. When Banti published Artemisia in 1947, the only in-depth art-historical engagement with Artemisia's work was the article "Gentileschi padre e figlia," which had been published in 1916 ...