Artemisia Heidenschi conquers Paris – World

World -It is one of the most expected exhibitions of the Parisian season that will bring about 40 Artemisia Gentilesschi paintings together in the Mosée Jacquemart-André: Strong of Lans from European and American private and private collections, from 19 March. Artemisia. Heroin of art It will bring to the attention of the public famous masterpieces of the seventeenth -century painter, newly attributed works and cloths that are rarely exposed outside their usual locations. In the center of the story, the in -depth originality of the work of Artemisia, of his path and his identity as a woman and artist: “A story that crosses the centuries”, reads the presentation of the project, for a work that appears, as a result of the resilience experience of the painter, “eternal and universal”.

The most Gunnest Artimia, Susanna were veins, c. 1610. Olium Tarps, 170 x 121 cm, Pomernsserder, Kunstamlgengen Graf von Schöborn, Créd: AKG-Images / Mportfolial / Electic

Under the masterpieces that are admired until 3 August, they stand out Susanna and the old people (Pommersfelden, Schloss Weissenstein), first work signed and dated by the artist, theSelf -portrait as a lute player of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford), with which Artemisia won the estimate of Cosimo II de Medici, Giuditta and the FantescaOriginal interpretation of the Biblical episode of the beheading of Oloperne stored in the Uffizi galleries. Instead, the Intense comes from the Cathedral of Seville Maddalena penitentrarely visible in an exhibition and theAllegory of tendencyPainted for the ceiling of the Buonarroti house in Florence, of which it is still part. Honorary guest becomes theIncoronation of Doornen van Caravaggio, testimony of the influence that the master of light exerted on painting Artemisia.

Artemisia Heidenschi, self-portrait as a lute player, 1614-15. Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 71.8 cm, Hartford CT. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Charles H. Schwartz Endowment Fund, Crédit: Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum

Structured as a journey Into Life and in the Themes favored by the artist, the exhibition Itinerary Will first focus on its success of Continental Dimensions, with commissions for the main European cours, on the emancipation of artemisia from it -it -like. Itself by Developing A More Dynamic and Vibrant Style, Up to the Consecration of its Talent in Florence, Where with Great Strength Artemisia a life – and a store – after the rape suffered by the painter Agostino Tassi and the paradoxal process that follows. Two chapters tell the relationships of Artemisia with Caravaggio and with other artists such as Gerrit van Honthorst (Gerardo delle Nights) and Simon Vouet, who expressed the image in the famous portrait of Palazzo Blu, while Leonavert Bramer dressed her as a man with a pike, clear supervision of his independence.

Artemisia Gentilesschi, an allegory of tendency, around 1615-16. Oil on canvas, 152 × 61 cm. Florence, Casa Buonarroti, Crédit: Florence, Casa Buonarroti, Buonarroti Archive

Ample Space is reserved for the Struggle Between Love and Death, a Typically Baroque Theme Very Congenial to Artemisia, Who Paints the Heroin of the Heroine of the Heroine. Passed with an extraordinary empathy.

Artemisia Gentilesschi, penitent Maddalena, around 1625. Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 97.5 cm. Sevilla, Cateteral de Sevilla, Photo: Seville -Cathedral