Education & Enrichment Series | Artemisia Gentileschi in Venice: Facts and Suppositions

Presented by Dr. Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator and Head of the Paintings Department, and Chair, Curatorial Affairs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. In the last twenty years our knowledge of the life and work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1654), the most celebrated woman painter of the 17th century, was considerably increased by new archival research and discoveries of new paintings. But the Venetian period of the artist (about 1627-30) remains one of the least known segments of her extraordinary career. The recent acquisition of a painting depicting Lucretia, the legendary Roman heroine, by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, may help to shed new light on Artemisia’s sojourn in Venice. In this lecture Davide Gasparotto, the Getty’s Senior Curator of Paintings and Save Venice Board Member, will explore and revisit the evidence of Artemisia’s life, work, and reputation in the Serenissima. Recorded on December 2, 2021. Visit for more information about our virtual programming.