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SPEAKER_00: Before we get started, a warning that this episode discusses sexual violence.Hello.From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.Historically, women have been told to make themselves smaller, to diminish themselves.Some have used that idea to their advantage, disappearing into new identities. For others, a disappearance was the end to their story, the beginning of a new chapter of their legacies.This month, we're talking about disappearing acts. Today's womanikin was pushed to the margins of history in more ways than one.Not only was her legacy as a brilliant painter eclipsed by her father, it was also simplistically attributed to a single-life trauma.Despite her great artistic skill and success during her lifetime, the complicated story of the woman behind the canvas has only recently emerged.
Let's talk about Artemisia Gentileschi. Artemisia's story is out there, if you look for it.There's a 1997 French-German-Italian biopic about her life, and even a play from the early 2000s that premiered off-Broadway.There are also plenty of articles, a novel, and even museum exhibits about her.But the thing about Artemisia's story that often gets obscured is that she was a talented and well-regarded artist in her own right.Not a small feat for a woman in 17th-century Europe. So why was her story forgotten for so many years?And why don't we know more about the artistic part of her life?The short answer is, as a teenager, she endured an assault.And that is the story that dominates.
But let's back up.Artemisia was born in 1593 in Rome, Italy, around the end of the Italian Renaissance.She was the eldest of four children when her mother died in childbirth. and so Artemisia became the family's primary caregiver at a young age.Her father, Orazio, was a well-respected artist who was greatly influenced by the painter Caravaggio.At first, Orazio had little interest in teaching his trade to his daughter.But from a very early age, it was clear that Artemisia had a gift for drawing.As an aspiring female artist in a patriarchal society, Artemisia's opportunities were very limited. She wasn't allowed to go to many of the places that her male counterparts went to study art.Nevertheless, she made use of what she had.
She apprenticed at her father's studio and used his paintings to guide her practice.Her own body became the blueprint off of which she constructed portraits.Some scholars note that many of the people featured in Artemisia's paintings seem, in various ways, to be versions of herself. In 1610, at just 17 years old, Artemisia painted one of her first and best-known pieces, titled Susanna and the Elders.The painting is a depiction of the biblical character Susanna, hot-bathing nude by two men.In the image, the men leer at her from above as she turns away to avoid their gaze. This particular scene had been depicted by other painters before.But Artemisia's attempt was one of the first to center Susanna's experience, her fear and vulnerability.And then came the moment that overshadowed all the rest.In 1611, while Artemisia was at her father's studio, she was attacked and sexually assaulted by an artist named Agostino Tassi.
After the assault, Orazio brought Tassi to trial. At the time, the biggest concern seemed to be the fact that Tassi wasn't married to Artemisia, a social taboo, rather than the sexual abuse she suffered at his hands.In fact, during the trial, Artemisia was forced to undergo a painful process to confirm she was telling the truth.In the end, Tassi was found guilty and was sentenced to a brief period of exile.But he completely ignored his punishment and left the situation relatively unscathed. Artemisia's father also tried to force Tassi to marry his daughter, but Tassi already had a wife.So, after the trial, Artemisia married another man and moved to Florence with him.What often disappears in stories about Artemisia is what happened next, how she continued her career as an artist.During her time in Florence, she focused on honing her craft.She perfected her use of color, light, and shadow.
Even her father wrote that she, quote, has in three years become so skilled that I can venture to say that today she has no peer.In 1616, she became the first woman to be admitted to the prestigious Accademia delle Arte del Disegno.She even created paintings for the influential Medici family.Many of Artemisia's paintings depict women who've been wronged by men. In one of her other best-known works, another biblical woman, Judith, brutally chops off the head of Holofernes. Holofernes was a general who was sent to capture Judith's city.She took matters into her own hands and seduced and killed him.Stories about Artemisia accentuate these depictions of female violence and attribute their brutality to her assault.But there was more to Artemisia's art than violence.For one, she was able to inhabit the female perspective.
Unlike other artists at the time, Artemisia depicted women who were powerful, aggressive, and autonomous. She also painted women with great specificity and accuracy.Artemisia was able to capture the female body in a more realistic and naturalistic way by drawing on her own life experience.Scholars point to the clear stylistic difference between her work and her father's. During this period of artistic growth, Artemisia simultaneously suffered significant personal and familial toil.Four of her five children died before adulthood, and her marriage unraveled.By the early 1620s, she'd returned to Rome.She lived a nomadic lifestyle, traveling between different Italian cities, even venturing as far as England.Though much remains unknown about her later life, Artemisia is said to have settled in Naples, she continued to paint for wealthy and influential clients, many of whom were nobility.
Though it isn't entirely clear when or how her life ended, it's likely that she died around 1656.That year, a plague engulfed Naples and killed half of the city's population.Artemisia was a popular artist during her life, but after her death, she remained largely unknown until she was rediscovered by feminist historians in the 1970s and 1980s. More recently, scholars have begun to highlight Artemisia's artistic brilliance beyond the constraints of her gender and trauma.All month, we're talking about disappearing acts.For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast.Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.Talk to you on Monday.
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