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CO.AS.IT. and TIAMSA Melbourne 2024 invite you to the book launch of:Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art by Associate Professor Christopher R. Marshall
To be launched by Professor Jaynie Anderson
Friday 12 July 2024, 6:30-8pm
CO.AS.IT., 199 Faraday Street, Carlton
Free event. Registration essential here: https://www.coasit.com.au/events/events-archive/1000-marshall-2024
Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art presents a new account of the renowned female Italian Baroque painter revealing how Gentileschi’s astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacy. Combining the most recent research with detailed analyses of newly attributed paintings, the book highlights the business considerations informing Gentileschi’s development of a trademark style. Her early Florentine paintings are reevaluated as an effort to make a celebrity brand of her own image. And, challenging the common perception that Gentileschi’s only masterpieces are her early Caravaggesque paintings, the book emphasizes the importance of her neglected late Neapolitan works. These are reinterpreted as innovative responses to the conventional practices of Baroque workshops. Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art reveals the extent to which Gentileschi’s remarkable success as a painter was due not only to her enormous talent but also to her ability to respond creatively to the continuously evolving challenges of the Italian Baroque art world. It also charts the ways in which this legacy was drawn upon after her death in order to transfer her from an obscure footnote of art history to a globally famous artist and feminist icon.
Christopher R. Marshall is Associate Professor in Art History and Curatorship at The University of Melbourne. His previous publications on Baroque art and the art market include Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting (Yale UP, 2016); and chapter contributions to The Economic Lives of Seventeenth Century Italian Painters (Yale UP, 2010) and Mapping Markets in Europe and the New World (Brepols, 2006). His publications on museums and curatorship include Sculpture and the Museum (Routledge, 2011) and contributions to Museum Making; Making Art History and Reshaping Museum Space (Routledge, 2005, 2007, 2012).
Jaynie Anderson AM OSI FAHA was the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne from 2009-2015 and Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne from 1997 to 2014. Her most recent book is Edgar Wind. Art and Embodiment, 2024
This event is presented in conjunction with the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association, a free international research conference hosted by the University of Melbourne from 10th – 13th July 2024. For further information and to register your attendance, visit: https://melbourne2024.artmarketstudies.org/
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189-199 Faraday Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3053, Co As It, 189-193 Faraday St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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