Artemisia Gentileschi

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Baroque painter Italian painter early modern artist human painter woman artist

Artemisia Gentileschi was a pioneering 17th-century Italian Baroque painter renowned for her powerful, dramatic depictions of biblical and mythological heroines and for being one of the first prominent female artists in Western art history.

Aliases (2)

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith paintings ×1
Gentileschi ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Baroque painter → Italian painter → early modern artist → human → painter → woman artist →
birthCountry	Italy →
birthDate	1593-07-08 →
birthPlace	Rome →
child	Prudenzia Stiattesi →
deathCountry	Italy →
deathDate	c. 1656 →
deathPlace	Naples →
era	17th century →
familyName	Gentileschi →
father	Orazio Gentileschi →
field	painting →
genre	history painting → mythological painting → religious painting →
givenName	Artemisia →
influencedBy	Caravaggio → Orazio Gentileschi →
movement	Baroque →
name	Artemisia Gentileschi →
nationality	Italian →
notableFor	being one of the first prominent female artists in Western art history → dramatic depictions of mythological heroines → powerful depictions of biblical heroines →
notableWork	Jael and Sisera → Judith Slaying Holofernes → Judith and her Maidservant → Lucretia → Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy → Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura) → Susanna and the Elders →
recognizedAs	major figure of Italian Baroque painting → pioneer of women in art →
region	Italian Peninsula →
spouse	Pietro Antonio di Vincenzo Stiattesi →
styleCharacteristic	dramatic chiaroscuro → intense emotional realism → strong female protagonists →
subjectMatter	biblical scenes → heroic women → mythological scenes →
workLocation	Florence → London → Naples → Rome → Venice →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Artemisia Gentileschi ("Gentileschi") →	familyName
Judith Beheading Holofernes ("Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith paintings") →	hasInfluenced
Old Masters →	hasNotableExample
Caravaggisti →	hasNotableMember
Caravaggio →	influenced
Artemisia Gentileschi →	name