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Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi ( US: ⫽ ˌdʒɛntiˈlɛski ⫽, [1] [2] Italian: [arteˈmiːzja dʒentiˈleski]; 8 July 1593 – c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. [3] .
Jul 4, 2024 · Artemisia Gentileschi (born July 8, 1593, Rome, Papal States [Italy]—died 1652/53, Naples, Kingdom of Naples) was an Italian painter, daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, who was a major follower of the revolutionary Baroque painter Caravaggio.
Aug 27, 2018 · A new play celebrates the 17th-Century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who defied her rape and torture through masterful paintings.
Apr 2, 2014 · Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. She painted her earliest signed and dated work, "Susanna and the Elders," around 1610, and later created such works as "Madonna and Child...
Artemisia has deliberately chosen to use her own image for the martyr and depicts Saint Catherine as determined and empowered after her divine rescue. Artemisia Gentileschi's turbulent life story often overshadows her art, but she was the most celebrated female artist of the 17th century.
Sep 28, 2020 · As the scholar Mary Garrard noted, in a 1989 appraisal titled “ Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art ,” the painting represents an...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Artemisia is the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century. She worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples and London, for the highest echelons of European society, including the Grand Duke of Tuscany and Philip IV of Spain.
Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the greatest artists of her generation. Born in 1593 in Rome, she achieved success across Europe where her work was in demand amongst aristocratic and royal patrons. Artemisia challenged convention and defied expectations of women artists in 17th-century Europe.
This painting, among her most ambitious, represents the Jewish heroine Esther, who appeared before her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, in order to stave off a massacre of the Jewish people, breaking with court protocol and thereby risking death.
Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of...
