Orazio Gentileschi

Nanette Salomon, a very well known feminist writer, wrote the article, “Judging Artemisia: A Baroque Woman in Modern Art History.” The article opens up with a discussion about the 2001-2 exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy. The author explains that three things are unusual here: the fact that two famous artists were presented at the same time, that they were related as father and daughter, and the fact that the woman was better known than

Plato, Poetry, and Censorship     Censorship of the arts has been around for a very long time. Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities or by community consensus. Poetry is an art, displaying an array of ideas or story through words. While Plato discusses with Glaucon how damaging poetry is for

realism shown in the groin wrinkle, the crow’s feet wrinkles at the right armpit, the lines in her neck, the pendant breasts, and the recognizably feminine abdomen (Image 200). Even so, Artemisia depicts the female form as more muscular and toned than the female bodies seen in most contemporaneous works by male artists. Though Susanna is seated, she is resisting the advances of the elders, and a cry is coming from her open mouth illustrating her alarm. Her shame of being naked in front of the elders

Larry Wolff. Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice. 1785, in Venice, Gaetano Franceschini was arrested for having had sexual contact with an eight-year-old girl whose name was Paolina. Franceschini , a sixty-year-old man that had moved to Venice from Vicenza, where his family made their fortune in the manufacture of silk. His suspected victim, Paolina, was the daughter of a poor laundress from the immigrant Friulian community in Venice. Franceschini took on the girl to become his

Artemisia Gentileschi Who is Artemisia Gentileschi? Why is she important? Well in the following paragraphs I will write about Artemisia, about her life, and accomplishments. In this case her art work that has had much fame. Artemisia’s was the first female artist, this is a great accomplishment because despite all the shame people put on woman in her time, she became a well known artist and was a huge example for other woman. Gentileschi was the daughter of Orazio Gentileschi; An Italian Baroque

Artemisia Gentileschi and Saint Catherine of Siena are two women in Roman history that have perseverance and strength in a male dominated world in Rome, which can be seen in their legends (histories), popular memory, and presentation (churches). Artemisia Gentileschi was born on July 8th, 1593 in Rome (Bissell, 153). Her father, Orazio Gentileschi was a Tuscan painter and her mother was Prudentia Montone. Her mother died and Orazio raised and provided for Artemisia and her siblings. Although uncommon

Artemisia Gentileschi the Renaissance Feminist Artist Manuel Hernandez Devry University Abstract Why exactly is Artemisia Gentileschi considered an early feminist? Doing a brief search and looking into her artwork, even for a brief amount of time and you quickly see why she was considered so. Her gender as well as the things she went through and experienced in her life heavily influenced Artemisia Gentileschi’s artwork. Some of the more famous and controversial paintings focus on females as

Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the first women, Roman artists to achieve recognition in the art world after the Renaissance art era. Gentileschi was born on July 8 1593 in Rome, Italy to Orazio Gentileschi in the Baroque period. She is most famous for her work on “Madonna and Child”,and “Judith Slaying Holofernes”. Gentileschi developed her artistic skills at a very young age with the help of her father, Orazio, who was a very well known and accomplished painter. Gentileschi had a very hard child

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi ultimately painted one of the most violent representations of Judith in the history of art (Straussman-Pflanzer, 12). Gentileschi was the only woman painter of the Baroque period in her time. She was born in Rome in 1593 to Orazio Gentileschi and Prudenzia Montoni. Artemisia was a follower of Caravaggio, whom art is frequently considered primarily in terms of its naturalism (Straussman-Pflanzer, 13). She also learned the principles of art from her

rtemisia Gentileschi was born in 1593 in the city of Rome into a family of painters. After losing her mother at a young age, Artemisia was raised along with her brothers under her father. Her father, Orazio, was a successful artist and was highly esteemed in the art world. Orazio taught his children everything he knew about painting while they were growing up. Learning from her father, it soon became apparent that Artemisia was talented and showed great promise. Gentileschi is defined as an Italian