Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi > Woman Playing a Lute > Next Painting
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c. 1610-1612 Oil on canvas 1.505m by 1.025m Spada Gallery, Rome. The Painting.
The attribution to Artemisa, while supported by many, has been challenged and her father or Giovanni Baglione have suggested as being the artist. The Artist's Life.
Artemisia enjoyed the artistic milieu of Carracci, Reni and Domenchino and was a contemporary of Caravaggio, a friend of her father. She probably met Caravaggio in her childhood. He died in 1610 about the beginning of her career.    [ Email your comments. ] [ Sign the guestbook ] [ Site map ] |
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his painting is often referred as "Saint Cecilia". Artemisia's father painted several women playing musical instruments. His poses may have influenced her choice
of subject, which she painted while still in her late teens. She already
displayed a grasp of early Baroque style. The pronounced chiaroscuro and
the unidealised appearance of the subject echo the techniques of Caravaggio, which dominated Roman art in the early seventeenth century. She appears to have rejected her father's much softer, late Mannerist style.
rtemisia had completed her apprenticeship
with Orazio by age seventeen. Her father was proud of her skills and for
good reason: she was a precocious genius, like Raphael and Michelangelo.
Nonetheless, art academies barred females from sketching or painting male nudes.
To continue her training, Orazio arranged for a friend, Agostino Tassi,
to tutor Artemisia.
