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Judith Slaying Holofernes 16121613<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> PbSnSb <br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Museo Capodimonte, Naples<br>
<b>Description:</b>
Artemisia Gentileschi portrays the moment that Holofernes is killed by the hand of the determined and powerful Judith. The overall effect is both powerful and frightening: the drunk corpulent general is lying on the bed, his head grasped by his hair and the sword plunged into his neck. 		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_-_WGA8563.jpgRome41.902782, 12.496366
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Conversion of the Magdalene 16151616<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Galleria Palatina, Florence<br>
<b>Description:</b> Mary Magdalene was a much-loved subject both by painters and the public because she represented the ideal model of the search of virtue and the renunciation of worldly pleasures. Artemisia Gentileschi wished to recount the story of this difficult path in her portrayal of a young woman with wild hair wrapped in a magnificent yellow silk gown holding a mirror, the symbol of vanity and inscribed with the words Optimam partem elegit (“you have chosen the best part”, namely virtue) away from her.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Artemisia_Gentileschi_Mary_Magdalene_Pitti.jpgFlorence43.7696, 11.2558
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Jael and Sisera 1620<b>Yellow Pigment: </b> Lead-tin Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location: </b>Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest<br>
<b>Description: </b>Taken from the Book of Judges, this painting depicts the moment in which Giaele is about to kill Sisara, a defeated Canaanite general. After his defeat by the Israelites he flees to a nearby settlement, where Giaele takes him in and promises to feed and hide him from the authorities. The moment he is asleep she drives a tent peg through his temple; an act that earned Giaele praise for her courage in the biblical text.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Giaele_e_Sisara_%28ca.1620%29_-_Artemisia_Gentileschi_%28Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Budapest%29.jpgRome41.902782, 12.496366
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Judith Beheading Holofernes1620<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin and Lead-tin Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Galleria dei Uffizi, Florence<br>
<b>Description:</b> In this powerful painting Artemisia Gentileschi portrays the moment that the Assyrian general Holofernes (Oloferne) is killed by the hand of the determined and powerful Judith (Giutta), a young Jew from Bethulia. The overall effect is both powerful and frightening: the drunk corpulent general is lying on the bed, his head grasped by his hair and the sword plunged into his neck, not shying away from adding the gory detail of blood spurting so profusely as to stain Judith's breast.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Giuditta_decapita_Oloferne_-_Google_Art_Project.jpgRome Florence?41.902782, 12.496366
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Saint Cecilia 1620<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Galleria Spada, Rome<br>
<b>Description:</b>
It shows a woman in a yellow gown and white chemise playing a lute, with an organ in the background. A cleaning in 1988 made the organ visible and confirmed the depiction of Saint Cecelia an early Christian martyr who later became associated with musical instruments.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Saint_Cecilia_by_Artemisia_Gentileschi.jpgRome41.902782, 12.496366
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Lucretia1627<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin-Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Getty Museum, Los Angeles<br>
<b>Description:</b>
Lucretia emerges from the shadows and grasps a dagger, aiming it at her chest. The beauty of her translucent skin, the pearls in her hair, the luxurious fabrics—all contrast with the horror of what is about to happen.		https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/90a016d8-1249-47ca-9bbc-d9f72df7d91d/full/1000,/0/default.jpgVenice45.4408 , 12.3155
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Annunciation1630<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Naples Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Museo Capodimonte, Naples<br>
<b>Description:</b>
Two brightly-illuminated figures are portrayed in a dark room. The women on the right is standing, bowing slightly with her right hand to her heart. The angelic figure on the left, clad in sumptuous saffron robes, kneels with a lily held in the right hand, while pointing upwards with the left. Light pours from a shaft above the figure, with winged cherubic heads circling. A small piece of paper on the ground to the extreme right of the painting shows the artist's signature and date. The image portrays the moment in the Gospels when the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she is to be the mother of God.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Verk%C3%BCndigung_an_maria.jpgNaples40.833333, 14.25
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Self-Portrait1630<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin Yellow <br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica, Rome<br>
<b>Description:</b>
A self portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi where the artist looks out to the viewer while painting a portrait of a man, possibly the patron who commissioned the work.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Gentileschi-autoretratBarberini.jpgNaples check40.833333, 14.25
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Corisca and the Satyr16301635<b>Yellow Pigment: </b><br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Private Collection<br>
<b>Description:</b>
Two figures, female and male, are shown in a darkened landscape. The women is running towards the left edge of the canvas, wearing a gold-coloured gown and a purple cloak over a white chemise. Her blue sandals contrast with the vibrant colour of her dress. She clutches her hair with her right hand and her skirts with her left, glancing back at the satyr who has fallen back on the ground, holding her hairpiece in his right hand.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Corisca_and_the_Satyr_by_Artemisia_Gentileschi.jpgNaples40.833333, 14.25
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David and Goliath16301639<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Naples Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Private Collection<br>
<b>Description:</b>
David sits triumphant leaning against a large sword and next to the disembodied head of Goliath. At first attributed to another artist, the signature of Artemisia Gentileschi was found along the hilt of the sword during cleaning of the painting.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_David_with_the_Head_of_Goliath%2C_Hampel-116058045.jpgLondon51.5072, 0.1276
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Clio, Muse of history1632<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Naples Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Palazzo Blu, Pisa<br>
<b>Description:</b>
A woman is shown in three-quarter view, turned to her right looking over her left shoulder, eyes cast upwards. Her left hand rests on her hip, with her right hand resting on a trumpet perched on an open book. She wears a crown of leaves as well as a large pearl earring in her right ear. She wears a russet-coloured gown over a white chemise, covered with a blue mantle pinned with a brooch at the left shoulder. The space in which she stands is dark, with a light source from the left casting highlights on her face, chemise and the pages of the book.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Gentileschi%2C_Artemisia_-_Clio_-_1632.jpgNaples40.833333, 14.25
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Cleopatra16331635<b>Yellow Pigment: </b>Naples Yellow and maybe Lead-tin (PbSn)<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Private Collection<br>
<b>Description:</b>
The nude figure of a woman reclines on a bed, partly covered by a bright blue mantle, with a small basket of flowers at her left elbow. Two women enter the scene from behind a curtain, one of whom appears to be weeping. The extreme pallor of her skin and the small snake moving away on the sheet signify the final moments of Cleopatra's life. Her head has dropped back on the pillows,causing her crown to fall from her wavy golden hair. While Cleopatra was a relatively common subject for her contemporaries, it was rare to portray this moment of the story, the queen's death.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Artemisia_Gentileschi_Cleopatra3.jpgNaples40.833333, 14.25
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Saint Januarius in the Amphitheatre at Pozzuoli
16361637<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Naples Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Cattedrale di Pozzuoli, Naples<br>
<b>Description:</b>
This painting portrays an attempt to kill Januarius, an early Christian and the Bishop of Naples. The saint was thrown into the amphitheatre in Pozzuoli where Diocletian expected him to be attacked by the wild animals. But Gentileschi illustrates the moment that the lion and bear are tamed, and with great docility show their obedience to the Bishop. The figure kneeling at the bottom left is Proculus, the deacon of Pozzuoli, who like Januarius would also be martyred.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/The_Martyrdom_of_St_Januarius_in_the_Amphitheatre_at_Pozzuoli.jpgNaples40.833333, 14.25
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Judith and her Maidservant16111612<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> National Gallery of Art, Oslo<br>
<b>Description: </b>At the heart of this work is a wicket basket holding the severed head of Holofernes. His contorted face is directed towards the viewer. The perpetrator of Holofernes’ beheading was Judith, a beautiful Jewish widow whose beauty and cold-blooded action saved her people from destruction. She is depicted with her maidservant Abra, pictured on the right.
https://ms01.nasjonalmuseet.no/iip/?iiif=/tif/147712.tif/full/938,803/0/default.jpgRome41.902782, 12.496366
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Judith and her Maidservant16231625<b>Yellow Pigment: </b>Lead-tin Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit<br>
<b>Description:</b>
Judith and her servant pause, seeming to hear a noise outside Holofernes’ tent. The shadowy interior is theatrically illuminated by a single candle. Judith’s hand shields her face from the glow, drawing attention to Holofernes’ discarded iron gauntlet. The viewer’s eye travels to the object in the maidservant’s hands: Holofernes’ severed head.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Artemisia_Gentileschi_Judith_Maidservant_DIA.jpgFlorence43.7696, 11.2558
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Lucretia e Sextus Tarquinius16201630<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin-Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Neues Palais, Potsdam<br>
<b>Description:</b> A carefully staged and at the same time drastic depiction of the attack by the Roman king's son Sextus Tarquinius on the married and virtuous Lucretia.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Gentileschi-Lucrezia-Potsdam.jpgRome or Venice45.4408 , 12.3155
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Bathsheba in the Bath16301640<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Naples Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Neues Palais, Potsdam<br>
<b>Description: </b> Bathsheba, the wife of an officer in the army of the biblical King David, is shown here surrounded by servants and seated on a terrace while nude and engrossed in her beauty routine. Above her, in the background, stands King David in a loggia, completely unnoticed by the women.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Bathsheba_-_WGA08558.jpgNaples40.833333, 14.25
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Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy16201625<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Private Collection<br>
<b>Description:</b> A woman is shown in a seated position, with her head leaning back and hands clasped around her knee. She wears a purple and ochre gown over a lace-trimmed white chemise. As she leans back, her wavy blond hair cascades behind her and the chemise has slipped down, exposing her right shoulder. Her eyes are closed as she sits in a darkened landscape, strongly illuminated by a light source from the right of the painting.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Mary_Magdalene_in_Ecstasy.jpgRome41.902782, 12.496366
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Self-Portrait of Saint Catherine of Alexandria16151617<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin-Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> National Gallery, London<br>
<b>Description:</b> Artemisia Gentileschi appears in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian saint martyred in the early fourth century. She leans on a broken wheel studded with iron spikes, to which she was bound and tortured, and which became her standard attribute in art. Her right hand, delicately holding a martyr’s palm between thumb and forefinger, is brought to her chest.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Self-Portrait_as_Saint_Catherine_of_Alexandria_%28Gentileschi%29.jpgFlorence43.7696, 11.2558
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Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist16101615<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-Tin-Antimony Yellow?<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Private collection, Budapest<br>
<b>Description:</b>
St. John the Baptist's severed head is presented to Salome upon a silver platter.		https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/-4AbKiRz_fIPRMM7GkLDCjUD_Uw=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/b7/36/b73617a5-6e33-4699-a6ba-d10a0fa49668/salome_with_the_head_of_saint_john_the_baptist_by_artemisia_gentileschi_ca_1610-1615.jpgFlorence43.7696, 11.2558
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria16181620<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-Tin-Antimony Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location:</b> Galleria dei Uffizi, Florence<br>
<b>Description:</b>
The painting is a representation of Catherine, the daughter of King Costus of Alexandria, who defied the emperor Maxentius with her staunch defense of her Christian faith. She was sentenced to death by use of a spiked wheel, but was saved when the instrument miraculously broke. She was subsequently beheaded and later recognized as a Christian martyr, with the broken spiked wheel as her symbol. She is portrayed in a striking red gown with gold embellishment, holding the martyr's palm frond and wearing an elaborate gem-encrusted crown.		https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_St_Catherine_of_Alexandria_-_WGA8560.jpgFlorence43.7696, 11.2558
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Self Portrait as a Lute Player16151617<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-tin Yellow<br>
<b>Current Location: </b>Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford<br>
<b>Description:</b>In this self-portrait, the artist wears a luxurious costume and plays the lute to portray herself as a cultivated woman. Her low-cut bodice and direct gaze create an erotic overtone that was appropriate to the traditional association of music and love.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Self-Portrait_as_a_Lute_Player.JPGProbably Florence43.7696, 11.2558
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A Female Saint and Martyr, possibly St. Catherine of Alexandria16271635<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-Tin-Antimony Yellow<br> <b>Current Location: </b>Nationalmuseum of Stockholm<br><b>Description:</b>The painting depicts Saint Catherine of Alexandria, patron saint of philosophers and scholars. The saint is portrayed as an intellectual young woman, who leans against a book, the symbol of her erudition. Her fillet and purple dress of sumptuous silk taffeta indicates her presumed royal birth. In the foreground lies the palm frond of her martyrdom.https://www.nationalmuseum.se/imager/assets/Nyheter/2020/Artemisia-Gentileschi-nm7538_64576ffe4e075da3e6596dab737e8711.jpgProbably Naples40.833333, 14.25
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Allegory of Inclination16151616<b>Yellow Pigment:</b> Lead-Tin-Antimony Yellow<br> <b>Current Location: </b>Casa Buonarroti Museum <br><b>Description:</b>Commissioned by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger for the ‘Gallery’ of the family palazzo in Via Ghibellina in Florence. The Inclination, which represented Michelangelo’s natural predisposition towards artistic creation, was painted by Artemisia as a nude female figure lying on clouds and holding a compass. Around 1680, a descendant of Michelangelo the Younger, probably his nephew Leonardo Buonarroti, commissioned Baldassarre Franceschini, known as Volterrano, to paint a blue drape and veils that would conceal the nudity of the Inclination, making it more suitable to an idea of decorum suggested by a stricter morality.https://www.casabuonarroti.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/001_OMakarova_Artemisia_CB_Visit7_Cleaning-1-1366x2048.jpgFlorence43.7696, 11.2558
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