In the last twenty years our knowledge of the life and work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1654), the most celebrated woman painter of the 17th century, was considerably increased by new archival research and discoveries of new paintings. But the Venetian period of the artist (about 1627-30) remains one of the least known segments of her extraordinary career. The recent acquisition of a painting depicting Lucretia, the legendary Roman heroine, by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, may help to shed new light on Artemisia’s sojourn in Venice. In this lecture Davide Gasparotto, the Getty’s Senior Curator of Paintings, will explore and revisit the evidence of Artemisia’s life, work, and reputation in the Serenissima.
Presented by Dr. Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings, The Getty Museum, and Save Venice Board Member.
Davide Gasparotto is Senior Curator and Head of the Paintings Department, and Chair, Curatorial Affairs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. A native of Bassano del Grappa, Italy, he was previously the Director of the Fondazione Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro from 1996 to 1998, and a curator at the National Gallery of Parma and the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici di Parma e Piacenza from 1999 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014 he was Director of the Galleria Estense in Modena, where he oversaw the complete restoration of the museum and redisplay of the collection after a major earthquake in May 2012. In December 2014 he was appointed as Senior Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum. He was also a Francis A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute, London (1999), Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. (2007), and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011-2012).
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Photo: Artemisia Gentileschi, Lucretia, about 1627, oil on canvas, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum
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133 East 58th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10022
Palazzo Contarini Polignac
Dorsoduro 870 30123 Venice, Italy
The Rosand Library & Study Center is accessible by appointment.