Violence and Virtue Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes
Two versions of Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith and Holofernes," both painted around 1613, at the National Gallery in London. National Gallery, London By Eleanor Nairne Oct. 5, 2020 LONDON.
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1613, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Detail. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) was the most accomplished female painter of the Italian Baroque. She specialized in Biblical scenes of strong women fulfilling their higher destinies. Her most famous painting, Judith Slaying Holofernes.
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Artemisia Gentileschi was born on July 8, 1593, and died around 1656. She was born in Rome. Her father was the painter Orazio Gentileschi and her mother was Prudentia Montone, who died when she was a young girl. She learned painting through her father, but her style evolved differently, and she painted more realistically.
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Judith Slaying Holofernes c. 1620, now at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, [1] is the renowned painting by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi depicting the assassination of Holofernes from the apocryphal Book of Judith.
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Artemisia Gentileschi was 20 in 1612 when she created this iconic painting of Judith, a Jewish widow, beheading Holofernes, an Assyrian general who had come to annihilate her city.
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Judith and Holofernes Artemisia Gentileschi 1620 - 1621. Uffizi Gallery Florence, Italy. This large painting signed by the artist was in Palazzo Pitti in 1638 and was tranferred to the Uffizi in 1774. In 1635 the Artist thanked Galileo Galilei for having helped her obtain payment, most likely for this painting for Cosimo III who was an.
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Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith Slaying Holofernes" Oct 17, 2013 - Jan 9, 2014. Exhibition
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(soft music) - [Man] We're in the Detroit Institute of Art, looking at Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. - [Woman] This story comes from the book of Judith, which is included in the Catholic version of the Old Testament, but not considered part of the canonical books of the Jewish Bible.
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A composition perfected The Uffizi Judith Slaying Holofernes is Artemisia's second telling of this narrative. The first, executed in Rome and now in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, introduced the dynamic composition centered on the thrust and counter thrust of extended limbs. Artemisia refined the composition in the second (Uffizi) version.
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Gentileschi carved a name for herself as the daring painter of biblical and Roman heroines — Judith, Esther, Susanna, Lucretia. Her bold history paintings upended traditional depictions of.
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Artemisia Gentileschi's uniquely powerful painting Judith Slaying Holofernes is a quintessential example of early Baroque art. In addition, this work, more than any other picture in her oeuvre, has come to define Gentileschi as an early modern woman and a superb Baroque painter, the first woman accepted into the renowned Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.
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Judith Slaying Holofernes is a painting by the Italian early Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, completed in 1612-13 and now at the Museo Capodimonte, Naples, Italy. [1] The picture is considered one of her iconic works. The canvas shows Judith beheading Holofernes.
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In " Judith and Holophernes " (found in Hall 90 along with Caravaggio), the biblical heroine Judith, a traditional example of virtue and chastity, is shown about to decapitate her despised Assyrian enemy whom she has tricked by seduction while keeping her purity safe.
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Artemisia painted two versions of this particularly gory Judith Beheading Holofernes scene, a decade apart—along with a number of other scenes featuring Judith and Abra, her maid. She painted.
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes, 1620-21, oil on canvas, 162.5 x 199 cm (Uffizi Gallery, Florence) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Questions Tips & Thanks Want to join the conversation? Sort by: Top Voted Jeff Kelman 9 years ago Two art terms that I need clarification on.
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Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1620; in the Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Judith Beheading Holofernes, oil painting created in 1620 by Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. This is one of the most vivid treatments of the scene, almost shocking in its violence and immediacy.