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追悼
Artemisia Gentileschi
Tortured as a witness at her own rape trial; painted Judith with a butcher's accuracy
- 生誕
- 逝去
- 享年
- 62 歳
- 埋葬地
- Naples, Campania — her burial place in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini was lost when the church was demolished, Italy
Gentileschi was trained by her painter father in Rome and was raped at seventeen by Agostino Tassi, a colleague engaged to teach her perspective. Her father brought a suit — for damage to his property, in the law of the time. During the seven-month trial she was examined under torture, thumbscrews tightened while she was made to repeat her testimony, on the reasoning that pain establishes truth. Tassi was convicted and the sentence was never enforced. The transcript survives and is read now as a document about how such cases were handled.
She left Rome, and became the first woman admitted to the Academy of Design in Florence, working for the Medici, corresponding with Galileo, running her own workshop, and later painting in Naples and at the English court. Her Judith Beheading Holofernes shows two women doing heavy physical work with complete concentration, which is what distinguishes it from every male version. She died in Naples around 1656, probably in the plague that killed half the city. The church where she was buried was demolished; there is no grave, and for three centuries her paintings were catalogued under her father's name.
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