Artemisia Gentileschi in Rome

February 20 2017

Image of Artemisia Gentileschi in Rome

Pictures: BG

We went to see the Artemsia Gentileschi exhibition in Rome last week. The Deputy Editor, as you can see above, found it very exciting. 

I highly recommend a visit. The show is on until 7th May. The show is genuinely revealing; it's only when you see a large number of her works together - and here cleverly interspersed with those of her contemporaries - that you reallise just how good she was, and how original. To be honest, she consistently knocks most of her rivals out of the park.

I particularly liked her .c1620-5 Portrait of a Lady with a Fan, below. What attitude. You wouldn't get a male artist painting a female sitter like that in the 17th Century. 


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