Orazio Gentileschi
Orazio Gentileschi | |
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Born | Orazio Lomi Gentileschi 9 July 1563 (baptized) |
Died | 7 February 1639 |
Nationality | Italian |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Mannerism |
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639) was an
After 1600, he came under the influence of the more naturalistic style of
Life
Gentileschi was born in Tuscany, the son of a Florentine goldsmith called Giovanni Battista Lomi, and baptised at Pisa on 9 July 1563. He later took the name Gentileschi from an uncle with whom he lived after moving to Rome [1]: p.6 in either 1576 or 1578.[2]
Early years in Rome
Much of Gentileschi's early work in Rome was collaborative in nature.
Influence of Caravaggio
From around 1600, Gentileschi's style was transformed by his contact with Caravaggio
In 1611, Gentileschi collaborated with Tassi again, on works including the decorations of the Casino delle Muse. However, their association ended due to a dispute over money.[2] In 1612 he was again called to the Tribunal of Rome, this time to speak against Tassi, who was charged with the rape of his daughter Artemisia Gentileschi.
Details of Gentileschi's studio practice during this period have been preserved in the records of Tassi's trial. Following Caravaggio's lead, he often painted directly from models.[1]: p.10 One of the witnesses at the trial, Giovanni Molli, a 73-year-old pilgrim from Palermo, said that he had posed for several pictures around 1610–11, including a full length St Jerome.[1]: p.94 Gentileschi also made studies from life for later use: he seems to have based the head of Abraham in the Sacrifice of Isaac, painted in the early 1620s, on studies of Molli's head made more than ten years before.[1]: p.6
Between around 1613 and 1619 he did much of his work for patrons in the Roman Marches, in the cities of Ancona and Fabriano.
Genoa
In 1621, Gentileschi moved to Genoa, at the invitation of Giovanni Antonio Sauli, who had previously commissioned works from his brother, Aurelio Lomi. Gentileschi's works for Sauli included a Magdalene, a Danäe and Lot and his Daughters. He found other patrons in the city, including Marcantonio Doria, for whom he carried out an elaborate scheme of frescoes of Old Testament subjects in a "casino" (since destroyed) in the grounds of his palace at Sampierdarena.[1]: p.167
France and England
In the summer or autumn of 1624, Gentileschi left Genoa for
: p.203In 1626, Gentileschi, accompanied by his three sons,
He was a favourite artist of Queen
In England van Dyck made a drawing of Gentileschi for inclusion in his Iconographia, a series of portraits of the leading artists, statesmen, collectors and scholars of the time, which he intended to publish as a set of engravings.[6]
Gentileschi died in London in 7 February 1639, and was buried in the Queen's Chapel at Somerset House.[1]: p.228
Works
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Assumption of the Virgin
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David and Goliath
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David Contemplating the Head of Goliath
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Saint Mary Magdalen in Penitence
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Cupid and Psyche
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Young Woman Playing a Violin
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Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes
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Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl
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The Finding of Moses
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Moses in the basket
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Susanna and the Elders
References
- ^ ISBN 9780300090772.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ a b c The Genius of Rome 1592-1693 2001, p. 378.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gentileschi, Artemisia and Orazio de' s.v. Orazio". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 602. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ISBN 9780714839660.
- ^ Sale of the Century 2002, p. 217.
- ^ "Anthony van Dyck, Orazio Gentileschi, a portrait drawing". British Museum. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
Sources
- Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi (Exhibition catalogue). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2002.
- The Genius of Rome 1592-1693 (Exhibition catalogue). London: Royal Academy of Arts. 2001.
- Sale of the Century:Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain1604–1655. Yale University Press in Association with Museo Nacional del Prado. 2002.
External links
- Media related to Orazio Gentileschi at Wikimedia Commons