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Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi

Christiansen, Keith, and Judith W. Mann, with essays by Keith Christiansen, Alessandro Zuccari, Livia Carloni, Mary Newcombe, Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Gabriele Finaldi, Jeremy Wood, Judith W. Mann, Elizabeth Cropper, Patrizia Cavazzini, Roberto Contini, Richard Spear, and Riccardo Lattuada (2001)

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Book of the Year Award (ForeWord) in Art (2001)

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Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy will be the first full-scale exhibition devoted to Caravaggio's most gifted follower, Orazio Gentileschi, and to Orazio's celebrated daughter, Artemisia. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 14 through May 12, 2002, the exhibition will feature approximately 50 works by Orazio and 35 by Artemisia, and will be the first exhibition to treat these two remarkable artists in depth.

Fascinating figures in their own right, when looked at together these two related but strikingly independent artists define many of the key issues posed by the revolution in painting brought about in early 17th-century Rome by Caravaggio. Orazio was arguably the most inspired and individual of those artists who knew and were directly influenced by the great Lombard painter, while Artemisia used a Caravaggesque idiom to become the greatest female painter of the century...