Elusive Heroine Of the Baroque.

Authors :: Bohlen, Celestine
Source :: New York Times. 2/18/2002, Vol. 151 Issue 52033, pE1. 0p. 2 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph.
Publication Year :: 2002
Abstract: Focuses on public interest in the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, as of 2002. Mention of the play 'Lapis Blue Blood Red,' by Cathy Caplan; Exhibition of paintings by Artemisia and her father Orazio, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; Publication of the book 'The Passion of Artemisia,' by Susan Vreeland; Information about Gentileschi, who was raped by another artist as a teenager; How the trial of her rapist, in 1612, has been the main influence in her modern celebrity.