Women Artists in Giorgio Vasari’s 'Lives': A Turning Point in the Renaissance

The Department of Transnational Italian Studies cordially invites you to “Women Artists in Giorgio Vasari’s 'Lives': A Turning Point in the Renaissance”, a lecture by Dr. Sheila Barker, Executive Director at "Studio Incamminati" in Philadelphia, and Founder and Director of the "Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists" at the Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy. The event is organized within Luca Zipoli's class "Early-Modern Intersections: A New Italian Renaissance" (ITAL B218) and is open to the broad Bi-Co community and to anyone interested. Sheila Barker (The Medici Archive Project, Florence – Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia) took her PhD in art history from Columbia University in 2002 with a dissertation on the plague of 1630 and its impact on the art and architecture of Rome. A honed archival researcher, she has published widely on medicine, politics and art in early modern Italy. She is best known for her work on early women artists. She wrote and edited three books on Artemisia Gentileschi, curated an exhibition on Giovanna Garzoni, and contributed articles on many others such as Lucrezia Quistelli, Plautilla Nelli, and Teresa Berenice Vitelli. Currently she is collaborating with "Saf Space Pictures" to produce a documentary on Artemisia Gentileschi and contemporary women artists. Please contact lzipoli@brynmawr.edu for more information. The event is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art.