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Realising
Gentileshi
Performance
Bottaccio Galleries
Hyde Park, London, 2002
"Gentileschi's paintings surfaced again with the emergence
of the Woman’s Art History Movement of the 1970s or ‘Herstory’ as we called
it then in London. I always felt that to the predominantly Marxist Feminists
that Artemesia was too “out there” with her need to market her paintings
to support herself and her family and her use of luxurious clothes, apart
from her graphic, in-your-face violence. It was not until the Royal Academy
put on the show Carravaggio and His Followers that I finally came face
to face with the actual painting that had so impressed me as a young student....
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