여류화가 Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-1651)

"Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome. She worked in a style influenced by Caravaggio, but which was nonetheless strongly individual, and today she is regarded as one of the most accomplished of the so called Caravaggisti. Though rather marginalized in earlier art historical accounts of her period, Artemisia has been reassessed in recent years, particularly by feminist art historians, who have discerned a specifically female point of view in her work. Her treatment of Susanna and the Elders (1610, Pommersfelden, Schloss Weissenstem), for example, concentrates on the vulnerability of a naked woman whose private bath has been violated by the predatory elders; male painters generally appear to give emphasis to the sensuality of Susanna's nudity, such that the (presumably male) viewer of the painting becomes in effect a third voyeur (e.g. Tintoretto, 1557, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum; Guido Rem, London, National Gallery). Artemisia's Judith Beheading Holofernes (Florence, Uffizi; a subject to which she returned a number of times) is notable for its extreme violence and has been linked to the trauma of her alleged rape in 1612 at the age of 19 by her painting instructor, Agostino Tassi. Her father sued Tassi for the crime, but in the ensuing legal proceedings Artemisia was tortured and Tassi was ultimately acquitted. The violence of these particular paintings is thus sometimes seen as a kind of therapeutic revenge substitute. During her lifetime she enjoyed a Europe wide reputation as a painter, working mainly in Rome and Florence, before settling in Naples from 1630. The Royal Collection contains her remarkable Self portrait as Painting."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia
Susannah and the Elders
1610
Oil on canvas
66 7/8 x 46 7/8 in (170 x 119 cm)
Collection Graf von Schoenborn, Pommersfelden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia
Judith and her maidservant
c. 1612-1613
Oil on canvas
44 7/8 x 36 13/16 in (114 x 93.5 cm)
Pitti Gallery, Florence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia
Mary Magdalen
c. 1613-1620
Oil on canvas
57 11/16 x 42 1/2 in (146.5 x 108 cm)
Pitti Gallery, Florence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia
Self-Portrait as a Female Martyr
c. 1615
Oil on panel
12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in (31.8 x 24.8 cm)
Private collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia
Judith Beheading Holofernes
1620
Oil on canvas
78 3/8 x 64 in (199 x 162.5 cm)
Uffizi, Florence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia Saint Cecilia c. 1620 Oil on canvas 42 1/2 x 30 7/8 in (108 x 78.5 cm) Galleria Spada, Rome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia Penitent Magdalene c. 1630/32 Oil on canvas 25 3/4 x 19 3.4 in (65.7 x 50.8 cm) Private collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentileschi, Artemisia Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting 1638/39 Oil on canvas 38 7/8 x 29 5/8 in (98.6 x 75.2 cm) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II