Tag Jesse Locker

January 19, 2021
in Art & Architecture

Artemisia’s Fame, Present and Past

January 19, 2021
in Art & Architecture

Jesse Locker — 2020 was, without a doubt, a terrible year for most of us; however, it was a very good year for the seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. The exhibition “Artemisia” at the National Gallery, London, despite being delayed for months and then interrupted by lockdowns, nevertheless sparked a

December 26, 2015
in Art & Architecture

Artemisia Gentileschi on the page and on the screen

December 26, 2015
in Art & Architecture

Jesse Locker– I confess that I first heard Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame, was making a documentary film about baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi—the subject of my recent book—buried in an article in the British tabloid The Mirror with the unpromising headline “Great British Bake Off leaves me cold says