Artemisia Gentileschi

the challenges faced by female artists during the Renaissance and Baroque period and how these challenges differed from their male counterparts. In doing so, this essay will briefly highlight lives of artist such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Elisabetta Sirani. Life for a woman during the Renaissance and…

capable of developing and sustaining authority over the public. Three groups of people that had conflicting thoughts on this topic included religious leaders, such as John Calvin and John Knox, educated women, such as Arcangela Tarabotti and Artemisia Gentileschi, and humanists, such as Laura Cereta and Baldassare Castiglione. Most religious leaders viewed women with an inferior perspective, most educated women viewed women with a superior perspective, and most humanists and those publicly…

Jakia Islam UCLA ID: 804789190 Renaissance and Baroque Art-Discussion 1I Artemisia Gentileschi's Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting Gentileschi used the symbols written in Cesare Ripa's Iconologia to personify females in her painting. The gold chain with pendant mask represents imitation The unruly hair strands represent “divine frenzy of artistic temperament” The garments with changing colors represent painter’s skill The themes of the painting were hard for male viewers to interpret but…

Oil on panel, 75 in. x 47 in. The National Gallery, London, England, and (2) Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes. c. 1625. Oil on canvas, 72 ½ in. x 55 ¾ in. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan. These two arts are similar in theme, but differ in styles. There similarities and differences show us why they are important. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Madonna of the Rocks and Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes are similar…

dangerous, and most importantly, less valued than men. Throughout history and in our culture today much of the privilege and power that men have over women is unearned. Why is it that men have enjoyed unearned privilege based on their gender? Through Artemisia Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders published in Italy in 1610 C.E. and William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew printed in Britain in 1612 C.E. it is visible that inequalities between men and women have been prevalent for centuries all…

2 Dimensional Art The two dimensional art that I observed is called Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, created between 1623-25. The artist of this painting is Artemisia Gentileschi. This was a large painting that covered over half of the wall. This painting was created by using oil paint. Artists used oil paintings because it dries slowly, the colors are able to blend together, and lastly oil paintings allows the painting to be larger then what it normally would be. The…

subjects directly and dramatically, combining intensely observed figures, poses, and expressions with strongly contrasting effects of light in color. One of the most brilliant followers was Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1652-1653), whose international reputation helped spread the caravaggesque style beyond Rome. Artemisia learned…

Gentileschi painting demonstrated a more serious look on life and yet that women who are called such gentle creatures can have the instants and motive within them as well to kill, that women can be just as vile as men and be able to kill. Virtuosity in painting…

According to The Humanistic Tradition Vol. 2, “Baroque is associated with such features as ornaments, spatial grandeur, and theatrical flamboyance” (p. 47). However, the manner that I would define Baroque would be that Baroque involves dark lifelike paintings; scrupulous and carefully crafted sculptures; meticulous, spatial, and secular architecture; attentive and diligent performances. The manner that the Baroque movement reflected on social realities involved delivering a new perspective on…

Italian Renaissance was a pinnacle point for the study of human anatomy, such studies can be seen through the detailed paintings of human bodies by Renaissance artists. The contortions of Holofernes’ body depict the human anatomy studies done as Gentileschi highlights the muscles of Holofernes’s arms and legs. This emphasis was to depict the anatomy of a common male figure at the time, but it is also important as she also emphasizes the scale and apparent strength of Holofernes. His muscles are…