| Saint Cecilia | |
|---|---|
| Saint Cecilia as a Lute Player | |
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| Artist | Artemisia Gentileschi  |
| Year | 1620 |
| Dimensions | 108 cm (43 in) × 78.5 cm (30.9 in) |
| Identifiers | Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID (deprecated): 08011668 |
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Santa Cecilia is an early painting, from c. 1620, by the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter described as "a grand exception in the history of art - a successful woman painter in an era in which art was dominated by men."
Description
It shows a woman in a yellow gown and white chemise playing a lute, with an organ in the background. A cleaning in 1988 made the organ visible and confirmed the depiction of Saint Cecelia, an early Christian martyr who later became associated with musical instruments.
Provenance
It is believed to have been painted in 1620 and is known to be in the collection Alessandro Biffi by 1637. It passed to the Spada collection in the seventeenth century as a means of settling debts and is currently in the Galleria Spada in Rome. In 1759 it was inventoried as "school of Titian", then later ascribed to Caravaggio and Caroselli, before being suggested as a work of Artemisia in 1911.
See also
References
- Locker 2015, p. 1.
- Christiansen & Mann 2001, p. 352.
- ^ Christiansen & Mann 2001, p. 350.
- Bissell 1999, p. 333.
Sources
- Bissell, R. Ward (1999). Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art : Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonné. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271017877.
- Christiansen, Keith; Mann, Judith Walker (2001). Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. New York; New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press. ISBN 1588390063.
- Locker, Jesse M. (2015). Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300185119.
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