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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes is a painting by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, created in 1639-1640.It was one of many paintings by Gentileschi that treats the theme of Judith, who beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes, who was planning to destroy Judith's home city of Bethulia.
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]
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
The artist, Gentileschi painted this portrait depicting herself as a female martyr when she was twenty-two. [9] Helen Clements describes Gentileschi’s painting as portraying herself in a gentle and more intimate manner. [9] Clements commented on the way Gentileschi looked in the painting mentioning that the women looks very soft. [9]