Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) was a Mannerist painter at the courts of Marie de Medici of France and Charles I of England.
Orazio Gentileschi Summary
- Born in Pisa to a family of Florentine artisans, learns the goldsmith’s craft
- Already as a teenager, becomes a Mannerist decorator for popes Gregory XIII and Sixtus V
- By 1603, influenced by Caravaggio, begins painting with a new perception of light
- Comes to Paris to join the coterie of Tuscan artists rallied by Marie de Medici, Queen of France
- From 1626 serves at the court of Charles I of England
- His Daughter, Artemisia Gentileschi also a famous artist
- Dies in London, after an apparently unhappy decade in his adoptive country
Orazio Gentileschi’s Famous Paintings
- Madonna and Child with St.s Sebastian and Francis (1600)
- The Stigmatization of Saint Francis (1601)
- Annunciation (c. 1605)
- Assumption of the Virgin (c. 1608)
- Cleopatra (1613)
- The Lute Player (c. 1615)
- Lot and his Daughters (1628)
- Danaë (c. 1623)
- Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife (1632)