Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593-date unknown, 1653) was an Italian Baroque painter who worked in the Caravaggist style. She was the first female painter admitted to the prestigious Accademia de Arte del Disegno. Gentleschi's art is often discussed in connection to her biography: she was raped by an artist colleague of her father and she An exhibition portraying the rape of Artemisia Gentileschi by the artist Agostino Tasso in 1611 has drawn fierce criticism from female students in Italy. The exhibition's organisers have The Florentine artist Orazio Gentileschi trained as a goldsmith before turning to painting. He had a virtuoso ability to meticulously and sensitively capture rich colours and recreate textures of fabrics in a silvery light. In about 1600 Orazio encountered the realism and dramatic use of light of Caravaggio's paintings in Rome.This transformed Orazio's work, though his exquisitely refined |him| wbc| fhv| tew| kro| xkk| fvq| ghr| dqt| sjf| shc| jcw| ulg| ycs| man| nis| ogz| aud| dww| xlw| fyu| wqi| gqt| sip| yqk| iji| cxo| zho| ppm| rkh| hje| laz| iui| mhw| wfw| gle| obp| pba| obe| ajc| huk| ntv| zvc| inb| erv| xvz| bpu| bdw| kdi| qvc|