Artemisia Gentileschi

8 July 1593 – c. 1656

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1656) was an Italian Baroque painter and one of the most accomplished followers of Caravaggio. She was the first woman admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, and her powerful depictions of biblical heroines, such as Judith Slaying Holofernes, have made her one of the most celebrated women artists in history.

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Born in Rome
8 July 1593

Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome, the eldest child of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi.

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Trained in the workshop of her father Orazio Gentileschi
c. 1605

Denied access to formal academies as a woman, Artemisia learned painting in her father's Roman workshop.

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Painted Susanna and the Elders, her first signed work
1610

At about seventeen, Artemisia completed Susanna and the Elders, her earliest surviving signed and dated painting.

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Raped by Agostino Tassi; testified at his trial in Rome
May 1611

Artemisia was raped by the painter Agostino Tassi, and in the ensuing 1612 trial she testified under torture; Tassi was convicted.

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Married Pierantonio Stiattesi and moved to Florence
29 November 1612

Shortly after the trial, Artemisia married the Florentine painter Pierantonio Stiattesi and relocated to Florence.

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Painted Judith Slaying Holofernes
c. 1614 – c. 1620

Artemisia produced her most famous work, the dramatic Judith Slaying Holofernes now in the Uffizi.

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Became the first woman admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
19 July 1616

Artemisia was admitted to Florence's Academy of the Arts of Drawing, an unprecedented honor for a woman.

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Settled in Naples
c. 1630

Artemisia moved to Naples, which remained her principal home and workshop base for the rest of her career.

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Worked in London at the court of Charles I alongside her father
1638 – c. 1640

Artemisia traveled to London, where she assisted her ailing father Orazio on ceiling paintings for the Queen's House, Greenwich.

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Died in Naples
c. 1656

Artemisia died in Naples around 1656, possibly during the plague epidemic that devastated the city.

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