The incredible story of Artemisia Gentileschi. How a 17th-century Italian female painter took revenge on the men who insulted her
A retrospective of Artemisia Gentileschi at the Jacquemart-André Museum — the main Paris exhibition of the current season. The curators tried not to linger too much on the scandalous details of their heroine’s biography, which are now well known, but rather to take a closer look at her art. However, without the story of the rape of 17-year-old Gentileschi, it is hardly possible to penetrate her artistic world. The mission was made impossible by the artist herself: her art is the answer to her own biography. How else to explain the anger and rage that guided her brush, and the very choice of subjects in which the woman always dominates the man or avenges her sullied honor?
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