Research topic: Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi , c.1597-c.1652, Tuscan painter, daughter and pupil of Orazio Gentileschi , b. Rome. She studied under Agostino Tassi, her father's collaborator, who was convicted of raping the teen-age Artemisia in 1612. Over the years, she has been portrayed as a strumpet, a feminist victim or heroine, and an independent woman of her era and her life has been fictionalized in several novels and plays. In purely artistic terms, she achieved renown for her spirited execution and admirable use of chiaroscuro in the style of Caravaggio , and during her life she achieved both success... Read more