Gentileschi: Greatest Female Artist of the Baroque Age

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Artemisia Gentileschi was the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century, as famous in her lifetime as Reubens or Van Dyke. But the events of her life were as savage as the events depicted in her paintings.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Elizabeth Freemantle, whose new novel Disobedient imagines Gentileschi’s life and the pivotal events that may have fuelled the energy and fury of her paintings.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:27.9	Artemisia Gentilesky was the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century.
0:34.0	She was known as Lapitoria, the painter. She was as famous in her lifetime as Rubens or Van Dyke.
0:43.0	Born in Rome in 1593, her first surviving work,
0:48.1	Opsizana and the elders, dates from 1610 when she was just 17 years old.
0:54.3	Six years later, she was the first woman to join the celebrated
0:59.5	Akademia del Dizzagno, the Florentine Academy of Art.
1:04.6	But the events of her life were as savage as the events depicted in her paintings.
1:11.0	And my guest today argues that they may well have created that energy and fury.
1:17.6	Elizabeth III mantle has previously published four critically acclaimed
1:21.3	Tudor historical novels, among them the girl in the glass tower and Queen's gambit
1:27.2	soon to be the feature film Firebrand. And as easy mantle, she's written two
1:32.4	gripping historical thrillers, the poison bed and the honey and the sting.
1:38.0	Her glorious new novel, Disobedient, tells a wonderfully imagined,
1:43.2	the historically well-versed version of Artemisia Gentilesky's life,
1:48.4	and those pivotal events that may have changed everything.
1:58.5	Elizabeth III mantle, welcome to not just the Tudors.
2:02.3	Well, I'm very happy to be here and I'm very excited to talk about Artemisia.
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