Artemisia Gentileschi Quotes

Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, now considered one of the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists working in the dramatic style of Caravaggio. In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Artemisia was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and had an international clientele.Artemisia specialized in scenes of female heroines and stories centered on women from myths, allegories, and the Bible, including victims, suicides, and warriors. ...more

Birth: July 08, 1593 - Death: May 26, 2020

As long as i live i will have control over my being

Topic(s): Long , Art

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found… that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can’t imagine it would have turned out this way.

Topic(s): People , Ifs , Men

My mustrious lordship, i’ll show you what a woman can do

Topic(s): Art , Shows , Can Do

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