Artemisia II

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Date: 2007

(died 350 ) Sister and wife of King Mausolus (r. 377–353 ) of Caria, southwestern Anatolia, and sole ruler for about three years after his death. She built his tomb, the Mausoleum, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.



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Artemisia's Critics, Painting With Crude Strokes
The Washington Post; 3/31/2002; Mary D. Garrard; 787 words ; ... obvious strain of the feminist-bashing circulated in the Met's news releases has been evident in many newspapers (The Washington ... to support the thesis, which runs through the wall labels and news releases, that Artemisia was an overrated, mediocre artist. At ... Read more
Artemisia: the invention of a `real' woman.(Anna Banti; Artemisia Gentileschi)
Italica; 9/22/2002; Scarparo, Susanna; 787 words ; 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 Read more
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Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2001; BOHN, BABETTE; 751 words ; R. Ward Bissell, Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press 1999. 27 color pls. + 257 b/w illus. + 446 pp. $85. ISBN: 0-271-01787-2. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-652/3) was arguably the greatest woman painter of Read more
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI: TEN YEARS OF FACT AND FICTION.(Critical Essay)
The Art Bulletin; 9/1/2000; SPEAR, RICHARD E.; 787 words ; I find myself with a female daughter and three other sons, and this daughter, as it pleased God, having been trained in the profession of painting, in three years has become so skilled that I dare say she has no equal today, for she has made works that demonstrate a level of understanding that Read more
'Artemisia': The triumph of a Renaissance woman.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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