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Article: Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593–c. 1654)
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GENTILESCHI, ARTEMISIA (1593
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c. 1654)
GENTILESCHI, ARTEMISIA
(1593
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c. 1654), Italian painter. Artemisia Gentileschi is known for her early dramatic biblical narratives presenting forceful female protagonists. Her less-known later paintings feature pensive heroines and classically composed groupings.
She was the daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, a Tuscan painter who trained her to paint in his style combining the artificial contrivance of mannerism with a naturalism inspired by the revolutionary vision of Caravaggio (born Michelangelo Merisi, 1573
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1610). Although some scholars have dated her earliest work to 1609, based on Orazio's 1612 boast that she had achieved ...