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GENTILESCHI, Artemisia

GENTILESCHI, Artemisia Portrait of a Condottiero dg oil painting on canvas
Portrait of a Condottiero dg
Painting ID::  6816
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GENTILESCHI, Artemisia Portrait of a Condottiero dg oil painting on canvas



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  GENTILESCHI, Artemisia
  Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1652 Tuscan painter, daughter and pupil of Orazio Gentileschi, b. Rome. She studied under Agostino Tassi, her father's collaborator, who was convicted of raping the teen-age Artemisia in 1612. Over the years, she has been portrayed as a strumpet, a feminist victim or heroine, and an independent woman of her era and her life has been fictionalized in several novels and plays. In purely artistic terms, she achieved renown for her spirited execution and admirable use of chiaroscuro in the style of Caravaggio, and during her life she achieved both success and fame. In 1616 she became the first woman admitted to the Academy of Design in Florence. About 1638 she visited England, where she was in great demand as a portraitist. Among her works are Judith and Holofernes (Uffizi);
  Portrait of a Condottiero dg
  1622 Oil on canvas, 208 x 128 cm Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna

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