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David Contemplating the Head of Goliath by Orazio Gentileschi, ca. 1610

Academician / Baroque / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

David Contemplating the Head of Goliath created about 1610 by Orazio Gentileschi, an Italian painter who happened to be a woman.  She was influenced by the works of Caravarrio and became the first female member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.  She was a great success in Florence between 1614 and 1620 when she moved to Rome.  Moving to Venice in 1627, she entered Naples three years later and joined her father in London in 1638.  Four years later she fled the English Civil War returning to Naples where she died 56.  This masterpiece of her is presently at the Galleria Spada, Rome.

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