Gentileschi family
Gentileschi family
- Ann Sutherland Harris
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Artemesia Gentileschi: Penitent Magdalene, oil on canvas, 1.46×1.09 m, c. 1615–17 (Florence, Palazzo Pitti); photo credit: Scala/Art Resource, NY
Italian family of painters. Both Orazio Gentileschi and his daughter Artemisia Gentileschi belong to the first generation of painters deeply affected by Caravaggio’s blunt realism that rejected the idealism fundamental to earlier Italian painting as well as the artificiality of Mannerism (see fig.). Orazio’s eldest son, Francesco Gentileschi (b Rome, 31 May 1597; d after 1665), was a painter and art dealer who is recorded assisting Orazio and Artemisia in the 1620s and 1630s; none of his paintings survives.
External resources
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Two Women with a Mirror, Alte Pinakothek (Munich)
- Bernini, Gianlorenzo: Ecstasy of St Teresa, 1647, S Maria dell Vittoria, Cornaro Chapel (Rome)
- Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da: St Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c. 1594-5, Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Madonna and Child, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Palazzo Corsini) (Rome)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Young Woman with a Violin, c. 1611-12, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI)
- Lanfranco, Giovanni: Saint Cecilia and an Angel, c. 1617-18, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: The Lute Player, c. 1612-20, National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: The Vision of St Francesca Romana, 1615-19, Galleria Nazionale della Marche (Urbino)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Lot and his Daughters, c. 1622, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: David with the Head of Goliath, 1610, Galleria Spada (Rome)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: St Francis and the Angel, 1612-13, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Lot and his Daughters, c. 1621, Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, c. 1620, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Finding of Moses, 1630-33, Museo del Prado (Madrid)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, 1626-30, Royal Collection (Windsor)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1628, Muse du Louvre (Paris)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Danaë, c. 1623, Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Annunciation, c. 1623, Galleria Sabauda (Turin)
- Gentileschi, Orazio: Cupid and Psyche, 1628-30, Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg)
- Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da: Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1598, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Galleria Barberini) (Rome)
- Gentileschi, Artemisia: Venus and Cupid, c. 1625-30, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)
- Gentileschi, Artemisia: Judith and her Maidservant, 1612-13, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina (Florence)
- Gentileschi, Artemisia: Mary Magdalene, 1613-20, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina (Florence)
- Gentileschi, Artemisia: Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1611-12, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte (Naples)
- Gentileschi, Artemisia: Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1612-21, Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence)
- Gentileschi, Artemisia: Birth of St John the Baptist, c. 1635, Museo del Prado (Madrid)
- Gentileschi, Artemisia: Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1630s, Royal Collection (Windsor)
