Università Roma Tre

The age of Artemisia Gentileschi (about 1600 – 1653) (6CFU, first term, from 20th November 2016)

The course aims to analyse Artemisia Gentileschi’s ouvre, from the beginnig with her father Orazio, one of the best caravaggesque painters, through the countries and artists she met during her career: Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples and London). Stylistic reading of the paintings and reconstruction of the artistic career and lives of the Gentileschis and the painters who worked with them will be the method use during the course. The knowledge of Caravaggio’s ouvre is basic for the course. During the course lectures about paintings’ identification will be given, and there will be visits to the exhibition Artemisia Gentileschi and her circle held in Rome, Palazzo Braschi.

Selected Bibliography:
More bibliography will be given during the course. At the end of the course slides of the lectures could be found at Ufficio Informatica. They are fundamental to prepare for the exam.
R. Longhi, Gentileschi padre e figlia, in “L’arte”, 1916, pp. 245-314.
R. Longhi, Gentileschi padre e figlia, Milano, Abscondita, 2011 (ried.).
R.W. Bissell, Artemisia Gentileschi and the authority of art; critical reading and catalogue raissoné, Pennsylvania State University 1999.
Orazio e Artemisia Gentileschi, catalogo della mostra (Roma-New York-Saint Louis), a cura di K. Christiansen – J. Mann, Milano 2001.
Lettere di Artemisia. Edizione critica ed annotata con quarantatre documenti inediti, a cura di F. Solinas, con la collaborazione di Michele Nicolaci e Yuri Primarosa, Roma, De Luca, 2011.
E. Cohen, More trials for Artemisia Gentileschi. Her life, love and letters in 1620, in Patronage, gender and art in Early Modern Italy, a cura di K.A. McIver, C. Stollhans, New York, pp. 249-272.
Artemisia Gentileschi, catalogo della mostra (Roma, Palazzo Braschi), a cura di F. Baldassarri, Milano, Skira, 2016, in corso di stampa.