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GENTILESCHI, Artemisia Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1652
Tuscan painter, daughter and pupil of Orazio Gentileschi, b. Rome. She studied under Agostino Tassi, her father's collaborator, who was convicted of raping the teen-age Artemisia in 1612. Over the years, she has been portrayed as a strumpet, a feminist victim or heroine, and an independent woman of her era and her life has been fictionalized in several novels and plays. In purely artistic terms, she achieved renown for her spirited execution and admirable use of chiaroscuro in the style of Caravaggio, and during her life she achieved both success and fame. In 1616 she became the first woman admitted to the Academy of Design in Florence. About 1638 she visited England, where she was in great demand as a portraitist. Among her works are Judith and Holofernes (Uffizi);
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Painting ID:: 6815 Birth of St John the Baptist dfg
c. 1635
Oil on canvas, 184 x 258 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 6816 Portrait of a Condottiero dg
1622
Oil on canvas, 208 x 128 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
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Painting ID:: 6817 Judith Beheading Holofernes dfg
1611-12
Oil on canvas, 158,8 x 125,5 cm
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
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Painting ID:: 6818 Judith Beheading Holofernes (detail) sdg
1611-12
Oil on canvas
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
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Painting ID:: 6819 Judith Beheading Holofernes dg
1612-21
Oil on canvas, 199 x 162 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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GENTILESCHI, Artemisia
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1652
Tuscan painter, daughter and pupil of Orazio Gentileschi, b. Rome. She studied under Agostino Tassi, her father's collaborator, who was convicted of raping the teen-age Artemisia in 1612. Over the years, she has been portrayed as a strumpet, a feminist victim or heroine, and an independent woman of her era and her life has been fictionalized in several novels and plays. In purely artistic terms, she achieved renown for her spirited execution and admirable use of chiaroscuro in the style of Caravaggio, and during her life she achieved both success and fame. In 1616 she became the first woman admitted to the Academy of Design in Florence. About 1638 she visited England, where she was in great demand as a portraitist. Among her works are Judith and Holofernes (Uffizi);
. Related Artists to GENTILESCHI, Artemisia: | Marin, John | Frans van Stampart | Teofil Kwiatkowski | robert john thornton | Charles Jervas |
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