(Born July 8th 1593, Died 1653) Artemisia Gentileschi was the most important woman painter of Early Modern Europe by virtue of the excellence of her work, the originality of her treatment of traditional subjects, and the number of her paintings that have survived (though only thirty-four of a...
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter, daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, who was a major follower of the revolutionary Baroque painter Caravaggio. She was an important second-generation proponent of Caravaggio’s dramatic realism. A pupil of her fat
But the most iconic depiction was painted by an artist who tackled this ambitious scene when she was just 19 years old. Her name was Artemisia Gentileschi. So who was Artemisia, and what sets her depiction apart from the rest? Allison Leigh investigates....
Indeed, art critics say her talent is extraordinary by any measure. “Gentileschi achieved something so unlikely, so close to impossible, that she deserves to be one of the most famous artists in the world,” wrote Jonathon Jones, art critic forThe Guardian. “It is not simply that she bec...
But Gentileschi is not only painting herself. She paints herself representing the spirit of art itself. One of the few successful female artists in Europe, Gentileschi created paintings with strong women. And often she used herself as a model. Though forgotten after her death, historians now ...
Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi, Artemisia(ärˌtāmēˈzhə jānˌtēlĕsˈkē), c.1597–c.1652, Tuscan painter, daughter and pupil of OrazioGentileschi, b. Rome. She studied with her father's collaborator, Agostino Tassi, who was convicted of raping the teen-age Artemisia and la...
Artemisia Gentileschi’s very public rape trial in the early 17th century was suddenly very important in the modern context of how a woman who was violated can be doubly and triply violated by the law and public opinion if she breaks her silence. So, I had this whole idea of writing ...
Artemisia Gentileschi was the first recorded female artist, having gained admission into the Accademia dell’ Arte del Disegno in Florence, and the first woman to earn a living by her brush. She was also the first woman to paint large-scale historical and religious paintings and the only female...
As a famous painter of the Italian Baroque period, Artemisia Gentileschi did not let her gender hold her back from her subject matter. She painted Biblical and mythological (神话的) paintings, just like male painters.Angelica Kauffman (1741—1807)...
the eldest female painters of Tuscany, orazio Gentileschi and prudence montone. AI introduced painting in her father's workshop, showing a greater talent than her brother, had with her. She learned to draw, how to mix colors, and draw....