Artemisia Gentileschi valuation
The most celebrated woman painter of the Baroque, and one of the most dramatic followers of Caravaggio.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–about 1656) was born in Rome, the daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi, who trained her in his studio.
What a work by Artemisia Gentileschi is worth
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Bio
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–about 1656) was born in Rome, the daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi, who trained her in his studio. Her first known painting, Susanna and the Elders, is dated 1610, and her Judith Slaying Holofernes, now in the Uffizi, is among the most powerful pictures in the tradition of Caravaggio. In Florence she became the first woman admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, in 1616, and worked for the Medici; she later worked in Rome, Venice and Naples, and in London at the court of Charles I, where her father was court painter. The National Gallery bought her Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria in 2018, and the exhibitions since have made her one of the best-known painters of her century.
Her paintings were long given to her father and to other painters, and her work has been rediscovered and reattributed in large numbers in recent decades, so attribution is the central question. In Naples she ran a studio and worked with specialists who painted the architecture or landscape in her pictures, and she repeated successful compositions in several versions of varying quality. Works once given to Orazio, to her circle or to Neapolitan contemporaries continue to be reassessed. Technical examination, comparison with documented works and the scholarship that has grown up around her since the 1990s decide what is hers.
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