Early Life, Family and Training Artemisia Gentileschi arrived in Rome in 1593, born into a household where the visual arts were the primary language. She was the eldest child of Prudenzia di Ottaviano Montoni and the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi. In the atmosphere of her father's workshop, she received an education that was both practical and rigorous. This environment provided her with a rare opportunity to study the mechanics of composition and the nuances of light, training that was typically reserved for men in the seventeenth century. Her talent manifested with remarkable speed. B…
A chart of Artemisia Gentileschi's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.