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Member Lecture—The Life and Work of Artemisia Gentileschi
Member Lectures are available exclusively to Museum Members. Join today.
Judy Mann, curator of European art to 1800, will discuss the life of the Italian Baroque woman who is considered one of the greatest 17th-century painters. Mann curated Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy, which opened at Rome’s Palazzo Venezia and in 2002 was seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian, 1593–c.1654; Danae, c.1612; oil on copper; 16 1/4 x 20 3/4 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase and gift of Edward Mallinckrodt, Sydney M. Shoenberg Sr., Horace Morison, Mrs. Florence E. Bing, Morton D. May in honor of Perry T. Rathbone, Mrs. James Lee Johnson Jr., Oscar Johnson, Fredonia J. Moss, Mrs. Arthur Drefs, Mrs. W. Welles Hoyt, J. Lionberger Davis, Jacob M. Heimann, Virginia Linn Bullock in memory of her husband, George Benbow Bullock, C. Wickham Moore, Mrs. Lyda D'Oench Turley and Miss Elizabeth F. D'Oench, and J. Harold Pettus, and bequests of Mr. Alfred Keller and Cora E. Ludwig, by exchange 93:1986