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Artemisia Gentileschi was around twenty years of age when she painted Judith Slaying Holofernes. Previously, Gentileschi had also completed Susanna and the Elders and Madonna and Child. These artworks already give an indication of Gentileschi's skill in representing body movement and facial expressions to express emotions. X-rays undertaken on ...
Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi (US: / ˌ dʒ ɛ n t i ˈ l ɛ s k i /; [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 ...
Gentileschi was one of many artists who used Judith as a prominent and recurring subject throughout the Baroque period. In fact, Orazio Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi's father, painted Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes c. 1610. Both artists assign the scene with a sense of urgency by choosing moments within the story ...
In her book, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, art historian Mary D. Garrard notes that Gentileschi's depiction of female figures places them in a more heroic lighting. Garrard notes the symbolism that writers have attributed to Judith beheading Holofernes, believing it to be Artemisia's version of ...
Judith slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1614–18. Gentileschi and others of her generation, produced an array of paintings of strong female women in literature, including Judith's beheading of Holofernes. Agostino Tassi was both her teacher and then her convicted rapist. [5] It is also said that he was the model for Holofernes. [6]
Lucretia is a painting by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. [1] It is one of three paintings that Gentileschi painted of Lucretia, the wife of Roman consul and general Tarquinus, at the moment of her suicide.
Artemisia Gentileschi is known as one of the most gifted followers of Caravaggio. His style is characterized by the juxtaposition of extreme darks and lights, also known as chiaroscuro. [7] In Lucretia, Gentileschi distinctly employs this method by contrasting a bright, almost glowing Lucretia against a dark, shadowy setting. This style creates ...
Tarquin and Lucretia is a 1620–1650 oil on canvas painting by Artemisia Gentileschi. [1] It hangs in the Great Hall of the Neues Palais in Potsdam. [2] It is one of three paintings that Gentileschi painted of Lucretia, the wife of Roman consul and general Tarquinus, at the moment of her suicide.