Sheila Barker is director of the Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists in the Age of the Medici. She wrote the introduction to Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi (Getty, 2021) and is a contributor to Artemisia (2020).
"A marvelously readable volume."--Christopher Knight "Los Angeles
Times" (2/23/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"Sheila Barker's cutting-edge scholarship in Artemisia Gentileschi
clears a pathway for all audiences to appreciate the artist's
pictorial intelligence."
-- "artdaily.com" (11/19/2021 12:00:00 AM)
"Over the last thirty years Artemisia Gentileschi has received a
good deal of attention, to which Sheila Barker's beautifully
illustrated monograph is an outstanding contribution, brimming over
with fresh insights and revelatory comparisons on nearly every page
. . . essential reading for everyone who has studied this artist,
as well as anyone who wishes to begin to know her."
--John T. Spike, author of Young Michelangelo: The Path to the
Sistine and Caravaggio: Catalogue of Paintings
"Sheila Barker paints a rich portrait of Artemisia's early career .
. . providing details of the artist's life as well as the
personalities she encountered. All in all, a major contribution to
our understanding of Artemisia's life and work."
--Judith W. Mann, Curator, European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art
Museum
"Sheila Barker's book provides a compelling and lively introduction
to this endlessly fascinating, complex, and essential painter whose
ambitious work challenged the gender-restricting conventions of her
day by asserting her claim to be the equal of her male
colleagues."
--Keith Christiansen, Curator Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York
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