Great Art Explained - Season 1 Episode 7 Artemisia Gentileschi
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.
First Air Date: May 29, 2020
Last Air date: Apr 26, 2024
Season: 5 Season
Episode: 39 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Popularity: 0.6726
Language: English
Episode
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)
Picasso’s Guernica
Michelangelo's David
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
Artemisia Gentileschi
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
Monet's Water Lilies
Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals
The Thinker by Rodin
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