Name: Artemisia Gentileschi
Released: 2020-09-03

Great Art Explained

S1 · E7 — Artemisia Gentileschi

S1:E7 · Artemisia Gentileschi

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11 episodes in this season

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)

13 min

Picasso’s Guernica

Michelangelo's David

15 min

The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault

15 min

Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"

15 min

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck

15 min

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15 min

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

15 min

Monet's Water Lilies

15 min

E10

Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals

15 min

E11

The Thinker by Rodin

15 min

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Artemisia Gentileschi

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Sep 3, 2020

Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an artist for a father was about the only way women could get access to the training expected of artists in Renaissance and baroque Europe. Women were not allowed to do apprenticeships, attend life classes or be members of the academies. Orazio Gentileschi, Artemisia’s father, was a well-known painter, who saw the potential in her from an early age and promoted her talent. Gentileschi became the very first woman accepted into the prestigious Florentine Academy of Fine Arts. Through her talent and determination she had a 40-year career, and was collected by the likes of Charles I of England and Philip 4th of Spain. And yet, she was largely forgotten and written out of art history for 300 years. Why? The simple answer is, because she was a woman.

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Great Art Explained

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Artemisia Gentileschi

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Sep 3, 2020

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