Artemisia Gentileschi

1593–1653 · Papal States · Baroque

Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi (8 July 1593 – after January 1654) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. Wikipedia

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Strong, determined women — Judith, Susanna — in dramatic Caravaggesque light and violent moments.

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“Susanna and the Elders”, 1610 — Schloss Weißenstein
“Danaë”, 1612 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Judith Slaying Holofernes”, 1613 — Museo di Capodimonte
“Self-Portrait as a Female Martyr”, 1615
“Cleopatra discovered by her servants”, 1635
“Allegory of Inclination”, 1615 — Casa Buonarroti
“Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting”, 1638 — Royal Collection
“Judith Beheading Holofernes”, 1620 — Uffizi Gallery
“Judith and Her Maidservant”, 1618 — Palazzo Pitti
“Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria”, 1616 — National Gallery
“Jael and Sisera”, 1620 — Museum of Fine Arts
“Venus and Cupid (Sleeping Venus)”, 1627 — Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
“Self-Portrait as a Lute Player”, 1616 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
“Susanna and the Elders”, 1649 — Moravian Gallery in Brno
“Esther before Ahasuerus”, 1629 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Judith and Maidservant with Head of Holofernes”, 1623 — Detroit Institute of Arts
“Susanna and the Elders”, 1652 — Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
“Conversion of the Magdalene”, 1620 — Palazzo Pitti
“Lucretia”, 1626 — New Palace
“Lucretia”, 1625 — Palazzo Cattaneo Adorno
“Adoration of the Magi”, 1636 — Pozzuoli Cathedral
“Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”, 1625
“Cleopatra”, 1620–1625 — Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation
“Madonna and Child”, 1612 — Spada collection
“Lot and his Daughters”, 1635–1638 — Toledo Museum of Art
“Portrait of a Gonfaloniere”, 1622 — Palazzo d'Accursio
“Lucretia”, 1630 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Saint Cecilia”, 1620 — Galleria Spada
“Susanna and the Elders”, 1622 — Burghley House
“Death of Cleopatra”, 1613
“An Allegory of Painting”, 1640s — Musée de Tessé
“A Woman Painting a Man (Autoritratto - Allegoria della Pittura)”, 1630–1635 — Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
“Nativity of St. John the Baptist”, 1635 — Museo del Prado
“Saint Catherine of Alexandria”, 1615 — Uffizi Gallery
“Corisca and the Satyr”, 1630s
“Annunciation”, 1630 — Museo di Capodimonte
“Mary Magdalene as Melancholy”, 1620s — Museo Soumaya
“The Martyrdom of St Januarius in the Amphitheatre at Pozzuoli”, 1636 — Pozzuoli Cathedral
“Christ and the Samaritan Woman”, 1637
“Virgin and Child with a Rosary”, 1651 — Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial

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