Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Artemisia Gentileschi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by the age of fifteen. In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and she had an international clientele.

My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do. — © Artemisia Gentileschi
My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
As long as I live I will have control over my being.
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.
As long as i live i will have control over my being
My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do
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