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When Artemisia Gentileschi was a young girl growing up in Rome in the early 1600s, her father took her to see Michelangelo's frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which had been painted 100 years before. It paid off.
In 1610, Artemisia Gentileschi copied Michelangelo. Click here to see who Michelangelo copied in 1508, and who that guy got it from.
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Susanna and the Elders, 1610
Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden
(image above is flipped)
In 1610, when she was 17, Gentileschi was raped by Agostino Tassi, a friend of her father (Orazio). Tassi then promised her marriage, and continued to visit her bed. Orazio Gentileschi sued Tassi, but not for rape. Orazio was the defendent in the trail, not Artemisia. He had been robbed of a marry-able daughter. Some people think this painting has something to do with that.
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Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel cieling,
detail, 1508-12
Expulsion from Paradise
Vatican City
This image comes from the right-half of one of the center panels on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It depicts the Expulsion from Paradise, when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge. |
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