Detail View: Visual Resources Teaching Collection: Judith and Holofernes

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Judith and Holofernes

detail with Holofernes

1630

creation

Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593-ca. 1651/1653)

female

Daughter of (1) Orazio Gentileschi. She was the first Italian woman whose artistic achievements not only were praised by her contemporaries but also influenced the work of other artists. She spread her first-hand knowledge of the work of Caravaggio beyond Rome to Florence, Genoa and Naples, where, in her exceptional career, she worked at different times. From the beginning she refused to limit herself to portraits, still-lifes and small devotional pictures, the staples of most women artists in the 16th and 17th centuries, but established herself immediately as an ambitious history painter. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-26) Artemesia Gentileschi was the most ambitious and influential female painter of her time. She spread the Caravaggesque style throughout Italy and expanded the narrow possibilities for female artists. Artemesia was taught to paint by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, who painted directly on the canvas and used live models. Her paint-handling in her early works reflects her father's influence, yet she also departed from him by choosing to paint tense, dramatic narratives starring female heroines. In 1612, Artemesia left Rome for Florence, after taking part in a trial against her art teacher, Agostino Tassi, who allegedly raped her. Shortly after, she painted her interpretation of Caravaggio's "Judith Beheading Holofernes," taking a more arresting and gruesome approach to the subject than was common at the time. In the 1620s, Artemesia was living again in Rome, making brief trips to Genoa and Venice and continuing to paint narrative paintings as well as female nudes, a subject shyed away from by other female artists of the period. In 1630, Artemesia had moved to Naples where her style became less Caravaggesque and her themes turned to more conventional religious subjects. In 1638 Artemesia moved to London to care for ailing father. From then on, her work was less frequent and poorly documented, and not much is known of her until her death, some time between 1651 and 1653. [ULAN accessed 2007-10-01]

Caravaggism

Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles

17th century

beheading

women (female humans)

violence

blood (animal material)

assassinations

Uccello, Paolo (Italian, 1397-1475)

Judith and Holofernes

Bibles

death

paintings (visual works)

paintings

painting on canvas

Museo e gallerie nazionali di Capodimonte

repository

375

accession

Naples, Italy

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