Italian painter of biblical and historical subjects, admitted to Florence's Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1616. Her Judith Beheading Holofernes of about 1620 shows two women straining at a physical task rather than performing a symbolic gesture.
Painting · Baroque
Artemisia Gentileschi painted Judith Beheading Holofernes around 1620. It hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Judith, a widow, kills the enemy general Holofernes while her maidservant holds him down on the bed.
Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593 and trained under her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. The National Gallery in London records that Orazio associated with Caravaggio from around 1600 and that his own pictures took on greater naturalism under Caravaggio's influence, though that phase was short. Artemisia learned to paint inside that household, so the line runs through her father rather than through any recorded contact with Caravaggio himself.
Art movement and historical period · circa 1600–1750
Admitted to Florence's Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1616, Gentileschi painted biblical and historical subjects with unusual conviction about physical effort. In the Uffizi Judith Beheading Holofernes of about 1620 two women strain at the work; the Uffizi also records that she was paid late for it, and got the money with Galileo Galilei's help.
Associated with · 1616–1654
Admitted to Florence's Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1616, Gentileschi painted biblical and historical subjects with unusual conviction about physical effort. In the Uffizi Judith Beheading Holofernes of about 1620 two women strain at the work; the Uffizi also records that she was paid late for it, and got the money with Galileo Galilei's help.
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Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593 and trained under her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. The National Gallery in London records that Orazio associated with Caravaggio from around 1600 and that his own pictures took on greater naturalism under Caravaggio's influence, though that phase was short. Artemisia learned to paint inside that household, so the line runs through her father rather than through any recorded contact with Caravaggio himself.