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Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian painter
Quick Facts
- Born:
- July 8, 1593, Rome, Papal States [Italy]
- Died:
- 1652/53, Naples, Kingdom of Naples
- Movement / Style:
- Baroque art and architecture
- tenebrism
- Notable Family Members:
- father Orazio Gentileschi
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Artemisia Gentileschi (born July 8, 1593, Rome, Papal States [Italy]—died 1652/53, Naples, Kingdom of Naples) was an Italian painter, daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, who was a major follower of the revolutionary Baroque painter Caravaggio. She was an important second-generation proponent of Caravaggio’s dramatic realism. A pupil of her father and of his friend the landscape painter Agostino Tassi, she painted at first in a style indistinguishable from her father’s somewhat lyrical interpretation of Caravaggio’s example. Her first known work is Susanna and the Elders (1610), an accomplished work long attributed to her father. She also painted two versions of a ...(100 of 377 words)