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Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639) was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany , he began his career in Rome , painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other artists.
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 .
The following is an incomplete list of paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Orazio Gentileschi. Catalogue numbers abbreviated "MET" are from the 2001 publication by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue numbers abbreviated "MET" are from the 2001 publication by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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's father, Orazio Gentileschi, was one of the first people in Italy to paint in the style of Caravaggio. [7] [6] With Gentileschi's father being her first teacher, it was not surprising that Gentileschi painted in a similar style. [6] [7] Art historians have different opinions about this version of Susanna and the Elders. [5]
It was painted during Gentileschi's time in Florence, [3] and is similar to her Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1619), now in the Uffizi Gallery. It is one of several paintings of female martyrs that Gentileschi made after her famous 1612 rape trial, in which she (unlike the accused) was subject to torture to test the veracity of her testimony.
Born on 3 August 1657, Domenico was the last of the eleven children born to the famed seventeenth-century artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his wife Caterina Tezio.He is frequently confused in older scholarship with his eldest brother, Monsignor Pietro Filippo who became a prelate and canon of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is a painting by Orazio Gentileschi, painted around 1630-1632 during his time in Charles I's court. Along with The Finding of Moses (National Gallery) and an Apollo and the Muses (Private Collection), it was created for Queen Henrietta to hang in the Queen's House in Greenwich.