Article: Gentileschi at the National Gallery.(Orazio Gentileschi)

Art historians, who love labels, often refer to Orazio Gentileschi as a Caravaggist. Gentileschi, a friendly but not an intimate acquaintance of the more vehement Caravaggio, certainly discovered his true bent in Caravaggio's unheroic style of painting. It was what established him as a master after twenty years of barren endeavour. He adopted Caravaggio's naturalism but not his ferocity, his livid colours, and the swarming shadows so earnestly exploited by Ribera and Caracciolo in Naples, and by Terbrugghen and Honthorst in Utrecht. Orazio's bloodthirsty daughter Artemisia was a more thoroughgoing imitator of Caravaggio than her father ever was.

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