To search the press groups, associations for the blog ” News-art-culture.com”. The art doesn’t have a predisposition for color or for the style, all to make after perception and artist’s vision where the eye studying and analysing concept’s reality behind to be realised on the canvas.  The talent doesn’t have a name and doesn’t have a preference to be masculine or feminine , it gives the fascination to leaves in contemplation opera and to be appreciated the work  indifferent by time or maneuverings comes from varies motives for to obscure a born personality for art. Artemisia Gentileschi  is a female personality of art which manages  to combat  with determination her psychic and body  traumas  being the figure most controverted  entered in painting in the first period of XVII century through masculine art’s  world domination  inherent her artistic genius.  Want we to know her history? 

Our protagonist to birth to Rome on 8th July 1593, the father being famous painter from baroque period and the mother Prudenzia of Ottaviano Montoni . Her luck is been that she is born into favorable period  for art when Rome is recognized as culture city  which gave  the art’s  start becoming so a only ambient in Europe  from cause catholic reform than contributing substantial at city development  with the restauration many churches  where are implicates more big masters in sites of rebuilding  for urbanistic renovation and in another architectural structural intervention ( larges streets, noble residences  and delineated places included with varies sculptures for to give the fast and to present cultural richness of city  and of the inhabitants). The most part of artists implicated have been from Florence, the big Master of Arts than have opened Artemisei the artistic way through art’s appreciating.

Left orphan of mother she is approaching of painting in the year 1605 being stimulated and in same time curious of painted figures by father where her sensibility becomes pregnant at fond color and at lights’ game(chiaroscuro). From her analytic eye comes delight for personages and admiration for paintbrushes which propels her in desire to prefigurating under colors’ mirror. In this way the artistic preparation begins from father which valorizing her the precocious talent at maxim for help him at material preparation utilized for painting (milling of colors , extraction, oil purification and paintbrushes confectioning). Refusing   to become person of house after mother’s death she passes of conflicts with intelligence where expose her artistic talent near of father executing the copy of xylography of paintings and etching of personages (Mercantonio Raimondi, Albrecht Dürer) the works that his father have them commissioned. For to complect the artistic preparation the father presents her Caravaggio in work room, a painter- friend with which she maintains the friendship, but father doesn’t leave to beneficiating fully of same paths of study in front of colleagues considering than is o masculine practice. Another disillusion!  Observing father’s comportment, she suffers but remains fascinated by Caravaggio painting which followed all life! It has been her style! With years 1608- 1609 she becomes the painter associating  the work in father’s collaboration ( her disciple) intervening  in same way  on some paternal canvas , producing little works  of art and at the end  she realizes  the painting which will represent her enters in art’s world” Susana and old people” where to observe the realism of Caravaggio. The painting is followed of critics suspecting his father ‘s help for make known the  daughter’s artistic precocity  which only 3 years of apprenticeship she arrives at an artistic competence comparable with that matures artistes. The fact which determines Orazio to spend a letter at duchess of Tuscany on 3 July 1612 for to be recognized the talent of painter: “This woman how is like to Good being oriented in painting profession, in three years has practiced that today I can say that doesn’t is any at her level, having today the work which only the principal masters of this profession don’t arrived at her knowledges”. Another admiration comes from part of Giovanni Baglione which describe her in bibliography as artist that presents “fireworks of painting”, the woman which is capable with prevalence to painting natural the portraits”. 

The sexual abuse, lack of respect and legals disputes of time. What vicissitude will have Artemisia ?

Artemisia Gentileschi is violated by Agostino Tassi a virtuoso painter, collaborator of father known as adventurer, implicated in varies legals processes, responsible by diverse crimes.   Them relationship is made by father being she sent to studying the prospective “trompe l’oeil” with him which arrives to violating, to coerce her to have sexual rapports with promises of marriage even though in acts he was a man married. Defy the process with bravery and force of sprit in front of false witnesses and calumny that was for destruction Gentileschi family’s reputation, of woman and painter. In addition, she is humiliated in front of justice court with varies medical controls b on her body in front of people from Rome  and in notary eyes which  writes her the verbal process verifying the truth of happen things. With 27 November 1612 Agostino Tassi is condemned, with sanctions to pay in money the reputation and act committed being condemned at eternal exile of Rome, but he doesn’t execute the sentence for sustaining influences which him wants present in artistic medium at Rome. Horror! Disdain! Gossip!  Threatened in sonnets and in great part of Roman public, she goes to Florence for begin the artistic life under Governor Cosimo II of Medici, an lover of art and promotor of culture at Florence. Through her oncle Aurelio Lomi influence she knows the culture’s people and maintains cultural relations (Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo Buonarroti-nephew of famous sculptor) which help her in procurement of painting work at big prizes. Her triumph in art is determined onetime with subscribe on 19 July 1916 at Academy of art and drawing from Florence (being the first woman admitted). In time she enters convenience marriage with Giovanni Battista from that to born 4 sons and at the end she is appreciated through her quality and artistic personality.  From Tuscany she come back at Rome in year 1622 where she meets more protectors, passionate of art (Italians, foreigners) which have admired with big enthusiasm her realism in painting. Her artistic life continues among Roma- Genova- Venice following father for painting collaborations, frequenting the artistic cercles of epoch where was present the famous artistic figures at that she has o interaction freer with the public and master’s colleagues of art discovering in same way an artistic endless artistic patrimony (roman, classic, pre- Christian) and contemporaneous art of her time. Her imagine is restored, she won cruel passed, artistic and moral dishonoring having work in orderly well paid just as he wished and her talent has been really admired in painting being exposed in varies public places, religious and privacy collections. She goes to Naples in 1630 choosing for life as a city wide of life with o new possibility of work.  In a short time she has diversity work ( mythologic, religious) through them she is noted with three paintings for a church (Cathedral Pozzuoli) “Saint Gennaro in amphitheater from Pozzuoli, Adoration of Magi and Saints Procolo and Nicea”. Later   she goes to London for help father (collaboration) entered as painter at king court Charles II at big work, commissioned for decoration the ceiling in Delight House of queen Henrietta Mary at Greenwich (Peace and Art Triumph Allegory). After a period from father’s death she come back at Naples where has another work ordinated well paid by collector Antonio Ruffo by Sicily. She dies of swine fever   at Naples in year 1657 together of other artists generations, she is buried in church Saint Giovanni Battista of Florence from Naples with a simple dedication “ Heic Artemisia” today results lost with the moving the building. 

The critics” female opera” will be her artistic opacity?

Her artistic talent doesn’t was accepted in that epoch because the painting was exclusive considerate, in general masculine art.  She had to fight for recognize as painter and to pass varies obstacles and negations comes from part of artists for her flexible talent and studies exploration of big masters.  Her heroines were represented by her desire of triumphing revenge for cruel people which have entered in sensibility possession and natural divine of a woman ( Giuditta, Giaiele, Betsabea or Ester). For motive to be woman- painter was forgotten  in over the centuries, she doesn’t is mentioned in books from arts History and not even noted of another illustrious biographies of century XVII. The critic Roberto Longhi describes her as an artist exceptional: The single woman in Italy which known that is painting, color and material mixture, she is simile with essentiality” … but comes desire at me to tell that this woman is terrible! “The critics come pros and cons, but we know that she was an artist which combatted with determination utilizing the own weapons personality and artistic qualities. What forgetfulness…..

The works?

Susana and old people, Giuditta which beheading Oloferne, Magdalena’s conversion, Giuditta with her lance, Giaele and Sisara, Madona and child with rosary, Self-portrait as allegory from painting, Good Annunciation …….

In painted heroines, Artemisia Gentileschi is her determination to defy cruelling enemy which that wants to dishonor her artistic personality and female side. She defies with courage in varies theatrical themes (Bible, mythologic) a series of dramas where is present her freedom, the triumph in physical and mental oppression with an intense realism in colors by chiaroscuro. The figures express determination in relation with the trauma produced for can end the act of revenge. But in same way she knows to painting the affection and Madona ’sensibility or expressive force at women subjected to violence. Artemisia enters to make part from theatricality everyone heroine  for understand and  to represent the scene in cruel details so how was her life , The realism followed her indifferent by painted scenography , she will be the woman- painter that combats into masculine world behind to arrive the success.