#5 Judith, Susanna, and Artemisia

Research from Abby's MA dissertation

Primary Sources 

Letters 

Gentileschi, Artemisia (As Artemisia Lomi), ‘Letter to Andrea Cioli, Secretary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany’, (Naples, February 11, 1636), Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), pp.123-127 

Gentileschi, Artemisia (As Artemisia Lomi), ‘Letter to Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany’, (Florence, February 10,1620), in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), pp.81-82 

Gentileschi, Artemisia (As Artemisia Lomi), ‘Letter to Francesco Maria Maringhi’, (Rome, April 11, 1620), in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), p.97-100 

Gentileschi, Artemisia ‘Letter to Don Antonio Ruffo’, (January 30^th, 1649), in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), pp.133-136 

Gentileschi, Artemisia, ‘Letter to Don Antonio Ruffo’, (Naples, June 12, 1649), in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), p.138 

Gentileschi, Artemisia, ‘Letter to Francesco Maria Maringhi’, (Rome, September 2,1620), in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), p.101 

Gentileschi, Artemisia, ‘Letters to Cassiano dal Pozzo, (Naples, December 21, 1630; Naples, January 21, 1635; Naples, November 24, 1637), in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), pp.107-114 

Gentileschi, Artemisia, ‘Letters to Don Antonio Ruffo’, (Naples, January 30, 1649; Naples; June 5, 1649; Naples, June 12, 1649; Naples July 24, 1649; Naples, August 7, 1649; Naples, September 4, 1649; Naples, November 13, 1649; Naples, November 13, 1649; Naples, August 13, 1650; Naples, January 1^st, 1651), in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), pp.133-150 

Gentileschi, Orazio, ‘Letter to Christine de Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Rome July 3. 1612’, in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), pp.67-74 

Stiattesi, Pierantonio, ‘Letter to Francesco Maria Maringhi, Rome, March 2, 1620’, in Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, by herself and others, ed. Sheila Barker, (Los Angeles: Pallas Athene, 2021), pp.85-87 

Rape Trial 

(Nb. For ease, in footnotes after its first mention, this English translation of the Rape Trial is indicated by ‘Rape Trial: Calingaert Translation’)  

‘For the Curia and the State / Versus / Agostino Tassi Painter / Before / The Illustrious and Excellent Lord Hieronimo Felicio / Locumtenente’ Notarised by Lord Decio Cambio Notary Procharitate, (Roman Court, 1612), English translation by Efrem G. Calingaert and provided in Garrard, Mary D., Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Baroque Art, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989), [Appendix B], pp.407-187 

Secondary Sources 

Articles [online/journals] 

‘Feminism: The Second Wave’, National Women’s History Museum’, (10/06/2020) https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/feminism-second-wave , [09/08/2022] 

‘Feminism: The Third Wave’, National Women’s History Museum, (23/06/2020), < https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/feminism-third-wave>, [09/08/2022] 

‘Immunity from Seizure’, National Gallery, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/media/35279/artemisia-ifs-report_august-2020.pdf, [08/09/2022] 

 ‘Young Sick Bacchus’, Borghese Gallery, (2022), < https://borghese.gallery/collection/paintings/young-sick-bacchus.html>, [04/09/2022] 

Adelman, Rachel, ‘Bathsheba: Bible’, Jewish Women’s Archive: The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopaedia of Jewish Women, (23/06/2021), < https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bathsheba-bible >, [26/08/2022] 

Bambach, Carmen, ‘Anatomy in the Renaissance’, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2022), < http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/anat/hd_anat.htm>, [08/08/2022] 

Barnes, Bernadine, ‘Skin, Bones, and Dust: Self-Portraits in Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement”’, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.35, No.4, (2004), < https://doi.org/10.2307/20477136 >, [04/09/2022], pp.976-977 

Benedetti, Laura, ‘Reconstructing Artemisia: Twentieth-Century Images of a Woman Artist’, Comparative Literature, vol.51, No.1, (1999), pp.42-61, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771455, [16/07/2022] 

Bissell, R. Ward, ‘Artemisia Gentileschi – A New Chronology’, The Art Bulletin, Vol.50, Issue 2, (1968), pp.153-168, < https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1968.10789138 >, [26/08/2022] 

Christiansen, Keith, ‘Becoming Artemisia: Afterthoughts on the Gentileschi Exhibition’, Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol.39, (2004), pp.101-126, <https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034603>, [29/08/2022] 

Cohen, Elizabeth S., ‘The Trials of Artemisia Gentileschi: A Rape as History’, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 31, No.1, (2000), pp.47-75, < https://www.jstor.org/stable/2671289 >, [03/08/2022] 

Craven, Toni, ‘Judith: Apocrypha’, Jewish Women’s Archive: The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopaedia of Jewish Women, https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/judith-apocrypha, [26/07/2022] 

 Dodds, C. ‘Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual’, in Carroll, S., (ed.) Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective. (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007) pp. 47-63,  

Eagles, Lane, ‘” Beauty adorns virtue”: Italian Renaissance Fashion’, Fashion History Timeline, (05/03/2019), < https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/beauty-adorns-virtue-italian-renaissance-fashion>, [14/09/2022] 

Figes, Lydia, ‘Artemisia: an interview with curator Letizia Treves’, ART UK, (24/04/2020), < artuk.org/discover/stories/artemisia-an-interview-with-curator-letizia-treves>, [09/09/2022] 

Frymer-Kensky, Tikva, Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn, ‘Yael: Bible’, Jewish Women’s Archive: The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopaedia of Jewish Women, (23/06/2021), < https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jael-bible >, [27/08/2022] 

Glancy, Jennifer A., ‘Susanna: Apocrypha’, Jewish Women’s Archive: The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopaedia of Jewish Women, (31/12/1999), https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/susanna-apocrypha, [26/08/2022] 

Heaton, Helena, ‘Artemisia Gentileschi was a feminist ahead of her time’, Varsity, (02/05/2020), < https://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/19071>, [25/08/2022] 

Jay, Nancy, ‘Sacrifice as Remedy for having been born a woman’, in Castelli, E.A. (eds) Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), pp.174-195, 

Lewis, Helen, ‘Isn’t She Good – For a Woman?’, The Atlantic, (10/01/2021), < https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/01/feminist-rediscovery-artemisia-gentileschi-uk-national-gallery/617327/>, [26/08/2022] 

Lewis, Helen, ‘Isn’t She Good – For a Woman?’, The Atlantic, (10/01/2021), < https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/01/feminist-rediscovery-artemisia-gentileschi-uk-national-gallery/617327/>, [26/08/2022] 

Locker, Jesse, ‚An Eighteenth-Century Biography of Artemisia Gentileschi’, Notes in the History of Art, Vol.29, No.2, (2010), pp.27-37, < https://www.jstor.org/stable/23208613 >, [02/08/2022] 

Mann, Judith W., ‘Caravaggio and Artemisia: Testing the Limits of Caravaggism’, Studies in Iconography, Vol.18, (1997), pp. 161-185, < https://www.jstor.org/stable/23924073>, [02/08/2022]   

Mann, Judith W., ‘Identity Signs: Meanings and Methods in Artemisia Gentileschi’s Signatures’, Renaissance Studies, Vol.23, No.1, (February 2009), pp.71-107, < https://www.jstor.org/stable/24417558>, [02/08/2022] 

Migdol, Erin, ‘How Artemisia Gentileschi Broke the ‘Dark Ceiling for Women Artists’, Getty, (03/02/2022), < https://www.getty.edu/news/how-artemisia-gentileschi-broke-the-dark-ceiling-for-women-artists/>, [25/08/2022] 

Nochlin, Linda, ‘Why have there been no Great Women Artists?’, ARTnews, (published in print 1971, published online 30/05/2015), < https://www.artnews.com/art-news/retrospective/why-have-there-been-no-great-women-artists-4201/>, [02/08/2022] 

Norton, Rictor, "The Passions of Michelangelo", Gay History and Literature, (updated 14 June 2008) <http://rictornorton.co.uk/michela.htm> 

Osbourne, Robin, ‘Women and Sacrifice in Classical Greece’, Classical Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1993), pp. 392-405, < https://www.jstor.org/stable/639178 >, [20/09/2022] 

Scarparo, Susanna, ‘” Artemisia”: The Invention of a ‘Real’ Woman’, Italica, Vol.79, No.3, (2002), pp.363-378, < https://www.jstor.org/stable/3656098 >, [17/07/2022] 

Sorabella, Jean, ‘Baroque Rome’, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2000), < https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/baro/hd_baro.htm> [04/08/2022] 

Sorabella, Jean, ‘The Nude in Baroque and Later Art’, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,, (2003), < https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nuba/hd_nuba.htm>, [07/07/2022] 

Sorabella, Jean, ‘Venetian Colour and Florentine Design’, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2002), < https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vefl/hd_vefl.htm >, [27/08/2022] 

Sorabella, Jean, “Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe’, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (08/2007), https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/port/hd_port.htm , [20/09/2022] 

Sutherland-Harris, Ann, ‘Artemisia Gentileschi and Elisabetta Sirani: Rivals or Strangers?’, Woman’s Art Journal, Vol.31, No.1, (2010), < https://www.jstor.org/stable/40605234>, [03/08/2022] 

Tietjens Meyers, Diana, ‘Two Victim Paradigms and the Problem of ‘Impure’ Victims’, Humanity, vol.2 no.2, pp.255-275 (2011), https://philpapers.org/archive/MEYTVP-2.pdf, [25/08/2022], 

Wood, Jeremy, ‘Dyck, Sir Anthony [formerly Antoon] Van’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2002/2010), < https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28081 >, [29/08/2022] 

Zarucci, Jeanne Morgan, ‘The Gentileschi “Danae”: The Narrative of Rape’, Women’s Art Journal, Vol.19, No.2, (1998-1999), < https://www.jstor.org/stable/1358400 >, [07/07/2022] 

Books [including essays in edited books]  

Arnold, Dana, Art History: A Very Short Introduction (2^nd edn.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) 

Barker, Sheila, ‘The Muse of History: Artemisia Gentileschi’s first four centuries of immortal fame’, In Artemisia, Letizia Treves, (ed.)  (London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2020), pp.78-89 

Bissell, R. Ward, Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art, (Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1999) 

Butler, Judith Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, (New York: Routledge, 1990) 

Cavazzini, Patriza, ‘Orazio and Artemisia: From ‘Such an Ugly deed’ to ‘honours and favours’ at the English Court’, in Artemisia, Letizia Treves, (ed.)  (London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2020), pp.32-45 

Cavazzini, Patrizia, ‘Artemisia in her father’s house’, in Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Keith Christiansen, Judith Mann, (ed.), (London, New Haven: Yale University Press and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001), pp.283-295 

Christiansen, Keith, Mann, Judith, (eds.), Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, (London, New Haven: Yale University Press and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001) 

Cropper, Elizabeth, ‘Artemisia Gentileschi: La Pittura’, in Artemisia, Letizia Treves, (ed.)  (London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2020), pp.10-31 

Garrard, Mary D., Artemisia Gentileschi Around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity, (Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2001) 

 Garrard, Mary D., Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Baroque Art, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989) 

Greer, Germaine, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979) 

Heller, Nancy G., Women Artists: An Illustrated History, (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987) 

Hufton, Olwen, The Prospect Before Her, (London: Fontana Press, Harper Collins, 1997) 

Keith, Larry, ‘Looking at Artemisia Gentileschi’, in Artemisia, Letizia Treves, (ed.)  (London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2020), pp.90-105 

Lister, Kate, A Curious History of Sex, (London: Unbound, 2020) 

Locker, Jesse M, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting. (New Haven, Yale University Press 2015), 

Longhi, Roberto, Gentileschi: Padre e figlia, (Abscondita, 2011 [originally published 1916) 

Mann, Judith, ‘Artemisia and Orazio Gentileschi’ in Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, ed. Keith Christiansen and Judith W. Mann, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001), pp.249-261 

Mann, Judith, ‘Susanna and the Elders’, in Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, ed. Keith Christiansen and Judith W. Mann, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001), pp296-299 

Pollock, Griselda, Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories, (London and New York, Routledge, 1999) 

Scott, Joan W., Gender and the Politics of History, (New York: Colombia University Press, 1999) 

Smith, Susan L., The Power of Women: A "Topos" in Medieval Art and Literature, (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995) 

Solinas, Francesco, ‘Bella, Pulita, e senza macchia’: Artemisia and her letters’, in Artemisia, Letizia Treves, (ed.)  (London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2020), pp.46-63 

Treves, Letizia, Artemisia, (London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2020) 

Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca, ‘Chronology’, in Artemisia, Letizia Treves, (ed.)  (London: National Gallery Company and Yale University Press, 2020 

Zurraci, Alessandro ‘The Rome of Orazio Gentileschi’, in Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, ed. Keith Christiansen and Judith W. Mann, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001), pp.39-47