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Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi
Gentileschi
Artemisia
Gentileschi
July 8, 1593- 1656
Italian Baroque painter
Caravaggio style
15 years old
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Home
Progressiveness
Featuring women
Overshadowed by rape case
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Life Highlights
⬩ Born in Rome
⬩ Learned from her father
⬩ Trial with future husband
⬩ New Marriage
⬩ Florence
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“By 1612, when she was not yet nineteen years
old, her father could boast of her exemplary
talents, claiming that in the profession of
painting, which she had practised for three
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Travels
⬩ Rome pt.2
⬩ Detroit painting
⬩ Venice
⬩ Naples
⬩ England
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STYLE
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Style Motifs
COLOR LIGHTING SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Artemisia used color in Artemisia uses lighting Artemisia represented
her work to make her to her will. She could social problems in her
characters vibrant and highlight certain art work. She was later
full of emotion and objects or lead your seen as extremely
drama. She also used it eye to them or just at progressive for her
to draw attention to her dramatism to a time.
works. dramatic piece.
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Oil & Canvas
All are women in power and doing more than
common stereotypes at the time
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Self-Portrait as Saint
Catherine of Alexandria
➢ Personal Experience
➢ Mute tone
➢ Lighting highlights
objects more than face
nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/artemisia-gentileschi
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Judith slaying Holofernes
➢ One of her more famous
works
➢ Dramatic blood
➢ Lighting highlights man
being killed
http://www.museocapodimonte.beniculturali.it/litalia-chiamo-capodimonte-oggi-ra
cconta-giuditta-decapita-oloferne-di-artemisia-gentileschi/
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Judith and her maidservant
with the head of Holofernes
https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/judith-an
d-her-maidservant-head-holofernes-45746
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Jael and Sisera
https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/jael-and-sisera/
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Venus and Cupid
➢ Cupid seems to be
Na
key
protecting the Goddess
la
of Love from pests
dy
➢ Puts Cupid in the
shadows
➢ Expensive cloth
https://www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-7901051/
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Susanna and the Elders
She painted multiple under the same title. All of which depict
Susanna being told to have sexual relations with the Elders or
they will accuse her of adultury.
This draws from her personal experiences with men in the past
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Timeline
1612 1618
1593 1598 Artemisia 1616 Artemisia 1642
Artemisia is finnishs Painting gains her She leaves
Artemi- learning supposed ceiling in popularity in England
sia is painting painting the Casa the after her
from her rerencing Florentine Father's
born father her rape
Buonarroti
courts death
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Thank You!
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