"The Artemisia Files makes an important contribution to the current debates surrounding Artemisia Gentileschi. This collection of essays has a potential audience not only of scholars in art history, gender and women’s studies, and cultural history but also of the more general public. It brings together a group of noted scholars whose work has energized and charged the entire discipline of art history."

Mary Sheriff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Over the last generation Artemisia has been transformed from a talented curiosity—a successful female artist working in the seventeenth century—into a standard bearer of early feminist consciousness. This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the critical frame of mind underlying this transformation."

Keith Christiansen, Jayne Wrightsman Curator of Italian Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"An engaging and provocative collection of essays about the now infamous Italian woman artist, Artemesia Gentileschi. Responding to the outpouring of recent exhibitions, articles, monographs and even a film focusing on and to some degree, sensationalizing the life and works of this artist, the pieces in The Artemisia Files try to shed light on this talented painter’s actual accomplishments and to deconstruct the myths that surround her art and work. Each of the six authors directly confronts both contemporary and historical discourses on hotly debated issues of attribution and interpretation and attempts the difficult task of divorcing the skilled artist from the sexualized or scandalous woman."

Linda Nochlin, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University