jssca: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1630s “In the Self-Po

jssca:Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1630s“In the Self-Portrait … Artemisia depicted herself in the act of painting, accompanied by several, though not all, of the attributes of the female personification as set forth by Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia. …The fact is, no man could have painted this particular image because by tradition the art of painting was symbolized by an allegorical female figure, and thus only a woman could identify herself with personification. By joining the types of the artist portrait and the allegory of painting, Gentileschi managed to unite in a single image two themes that male artists had been obliged to treat separately, even though these often carried the same message. - Mary D. Garrard, “Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portait as the Allegory of Painting.” The Art Bulletin, 62, no. 1 (March 1980) 97.  -- source link

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