Artemisia gentileschi judith caravaggio. She was considered a respected artist of her time along with her male peers. More recent analysis of the painting has taken a broader view seeing the painting in the context. It is considered one of her iconic works.
The canvas shows the scene of judith beheading holofernes. The account of the beheading of holofernes by judith is given in the deuterocanonical book of judith and is the subject of many paintings and sculptures from the renaissance and baroque periods. Judith slaying holofernes by artemisia gentileschi 161418.
Artemisia gentileschi the baroque metoo heroine who avenged her rape through art after centuries of neglect the genius of the female caravaggio is being recognised with her first london show. Derived from caravaggios naturalism. Dntilski italian.
Artemisia gentileschi was the first woman to get accepted into the accademia delle arti del disegno academy of the arts of drawing. The girl was artemisia gentileschi who went on to become the greatest female artist of the baroque age blazing a trail for future woman artists and even being invited by charles i to paint for. Early feminist critics interpreted the painting as a form of visual revenge following gentileschis rape by agostino tassi in 1611.
1620 and now in the uffizi is one of the bloodiest and most vivid depictions of the scene surpassing the version by caravaggio arch realist of baroque rome in its immediacy and shocking realism. Artemisia and caravaggio this particular painting executed by artemisia gentileschi in florence c. 1656 was an italian baroque painter now considered one of the most accomplished seventeenth century artists initially working in the style of caravaggio.
Judith slaying holofernes is a painting by the italian early baroque artist artemisia gentileschi completed in 1612 13 and now at the museo capodimonte naples italy. Judith with the head of holofernes by lucas cranach the elder 1530. July 8 1593 c.
Artemisias reemergence is also tied to a greater awareness of her life story which was at least as eventful as that of caravaggio. The uks first retrospective for artemisia gentileschi.
Artemisia Gentileschi Old Master Paintings I 2019 10 22 Estimate Eur 400 000 To Eur 600 000 Dorotheum
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