they must use in order to convey their image as successful as possible. Each medium has its advantages and disadvantages when used‚ so artists must master the medium in a way that allows them to perfect their image. This is exactly what Artemisia Gentileschi has done with oil painting mediums. Known as one of the famous female Baroque artist‚ all of her works are perfectly painted with great detail and colors. When one looks at her works‚ one can see the excellence in her skills that are portrayed in
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Out of all the women artist of seventeenth-century Italy‚ Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the most influential and admired. She is the first woman in history of Western art whose historical significance is unquestionable (Chadwisck 100). Artemisia was born in Rome but was active in Florence‚ Naples‚ and London. Her father was the famous painter Orazio Gentileschi‚ and he was one of the most important of Caravaggio’s followers. Because her father’s artist style was inspired by Caravaggio during the
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Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter born in Rome in 1593. Her father was Orazio Gentileschi‚ a well-known Tuscan master. Gentileschi and her brothers were given their first creative art lessons by their father. However‚ it later was apparent that Artemisia was greatly more artistic than her siblings. She established her first famous art piece at seventeen years of age. The name of this artwork was called “Susanna and the Elders”. Some critics feel Artemisia was harassed
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was there under commission of Queen Henrietta Maria. She then returned to Naples until her death‚ which was around 1652 or 1653. One of her most famous works is titled Judith Slaying Holofernes‚ completed around 1612. It depicts the biblical story of the Jewish heroine Judith saving the Jewish people by slaughtering Holofernes‚ the
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Artemisia Gentileschi: the first female artist The first female artist‚ Artemisia Gentileschi was born on July 8th 1593 and would die as the most important woman painter in Early Modern Europe. At a very young age‚ Artemisia was introduced into the world of painting by her father‚ Orazio Gentileschi. Orazio was a well-known painter as well‚ with much of his work consisting in a Mannerist style. Italian painter Caravaggio‚ had a tremendous amount of influence on both Orazio and Artemisia. His realistic
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Artemisia Gentileschi‚ was widely appraised for her most distinctive work‚ the “Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting” (1638) that changed art as a frontier with gender barriers. In the Caravaggio styled self-portrait Gentileschi captures her own image through illumination that enables her to highlight the most distinctive elements of her feminine personality on the canvas. Made during the Baroque era‚ the painting is a representation of excellent use of oil to create different hues of color
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Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s "David with the Head of Goliath" and Artemisia Gentileschi’s "Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" The period of Baroque art was from 1600 to 1750‚ and relates to the style of architecture and art that was dominant at that time. Rome was the center of this new style that reflected the Counter Reformation; the Church was regrouping during this period‚ and was trying to build up its patronage by bringing people back to worship after the Reformation
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Jacquelyn Archey Mr. Gans AP Lang – Period 3 11/14/12 Slaying the Beast Perched on a rock‚ the heroic victor leans on his bloodied sword with the decapitated head from the six-headed beast raised up towards the light. His patriotic toga remains wrapped dutifully around his shoulder while the remaining five heads sneer in disgust and plot their revenge behind him. This Greek mythological hero is anything but; he is American president Barack Obama holding the disapproving‚ lifeless head of Osama
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Judith is a 349- line poetic fragment. It is one of five articles in the British Library‚ MS. Cotton Vitellius A.xv. It is a document originally made up of two manuscripts. The first of the pair known as the Southwick Codex‚ is thought to of been produced during the twelfth century. The Nowwell Codex also known as “The Beowulf Manuscript” is about 150 years older and dated between A.D 980 and 1020. The manuscripts were combined in the 17th century. Like much of the other works housed at the Cotton
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Slaying the Dragon: How Asian Women were Portrayed in Movies "Slaying the Dragon" by Deborah Gee is a comprehensive look at media stereotypes of Asian and Asian American women since the silent era. From the racist use of white actors to portray Asians in early Hollywood films‚ through the success of Anna May Wong’s sinister dragon lady‚ to Suzie Wong and the 50s geisha girls‚ to the Asian-American anchorwoman of today. The movie also shows how stereotypes of exoticism and docility have affected
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