Notably, many of Artemisia Gentileschi's subsequent paintings feature scenes of women either being attacked by men, or in positions of power seeking revenge. A month after the trial had finished, Orazio made arrangements for Artemisia to marry the artist Pierantonio Stiattesi. The pair moved to Stiattesi's home town of Florence. Here she received one of her first major commissions, for a fresco at the Casa Buonarotti, the home of Michelangelo, which was being turned into a monument and museum to the painter by his great nephew.
While living in Florence, Artemisia became the first woman to be accepted into the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno the Academy of Arts and Drawing. This allowed her to purchase her artistic supplies without the permission of her husband and to sign her own contracts. In , Artemisia and her husband had a daughter, Prudentia, who was named after Artemisia's deceased mother. Their affair is documented by a series of letters from Artemisia to Maringhi, discovered by the academic Francesco Solinas in Unconventionally, Artemisia's husband knew about the affair and used his wife's love letters to correspond with Maringhi himself.
It seems that Maringhi was partially responsible for keeping the couple financially solvent, something that was a frequent concern for them due to Stiattesi's mishandling of money. Financial problems, alongside widespread rumors regarding Artemisia's affair triggered disagreement between the couple and in , Artemisia returned to Rome without her husband. Here, she continued to be influenced by the innovations of Caravaggio and worked with several of his followers, including the painter Simon Vouet.
She was not as successful in Rome as she had hoped and towards the end of the decade she spent some time in Venice, presumably searching for new commissions. Continuing her itinerant lifestyle without her husband but with her daughter , Gentileschi moved to Naples in , where she worked with a number of well-known artists such as Massimo Stanzione. In , Artemisia was invited to the court of Charles I of England in London where her father had been the court painter since Orazio had made his name as the only Italian painter in London and one of the first artists to introduce the style of Caravaggio to England.
Despite the fact that they had not seen each other for more than 17 years, there is little record of Orazio and Artemisia's reunion. Bissell, R. University Park, Penn. Christiansen, Keith, and Judith W. Mann, et al. Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. Princeton, N. Berkeley: University of California Press, Judy Chicago American, b. The Dinner Party Artemisia Gentileschi place setting , — Mixed media: ceramic, porcelain, textile. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, Artemisia Gentileschi turned the horrors of her own life — repression, injustice, rape — into brutal biblical paintings that were also a war cry for oppressed women.
Why has her extraordinary genius been overlooked? T wo women are holding a man down on a bed. They are well-built with powerful arms but even so it takes their combined strength to keep their victim immobilised as one of them cuts through his throat with a gleaming sword.
Blood spurts from deep red geysers as she saws. He knows exactly what is happening to him. The dying man is Holofernes, an enemy of the Israelites in the Old Testament, and the young woman beheading him is Judith, his divinely appointed assassin.
Yet at the same time he is also an Italian painter called Agostino Tassi, while the woman with the sword is Artemisia Gentileschi, who painted this. It is, effectively, a self-portrait. Two big, blood-drenched paintings of Judith and Holofernes by Gentileschi survive, one in the Capodimonte in Naples, the other in the Uffizi in Florence. Ropes were wrapped around her fingers and pulled tight. The judge had advised moderate use of the sibille , as this torture was called, for she was after all Across the court sat the man who had raped her.
No one thought of torturing him. Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the incendiary artist Caravaggio, whose terrifying painting of Judith and Holofernes influenced hers. She is one of the stars of Beyond Caravaggio, an epic survey of his rivals and disciples about to open at the National Gallery in London. With words and images, she fought back against the male violence that dominated the world she lived in.
Gentileschi achieved something so unlikely, so close to impossible, that she deserves to be one of the most famous artists in the world. It is not simply that she became a highly successful artist in an age when guilds and academies closed their doors to women.
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