Description
Published for the exhibition Artemisia in the Museum of Michelangelo
Florence, Casa Buonarroti, 26 September 2023 – 8 January 2024
Exhibition and book sponsored by Calliope Arts & Christian Levett
Editor Linda Falcone
Authors Cristina Acidini, Alessandro Cecchi, Elizabeth Cropper, Mary Garrard, Margie MacKinnon, Elizabeth Wicks
Artemisia’s Florence debut and the restoration of her Inclination 400 years later
During Artemisia Gentileschi’s seven years in Florence, the artist formed friendships with emerging artists and top intellectuals, as part of Michelangelo the Younger’s cultural salon. She authored her Allegory of Inclination in her early twenties, just before becoming the first female painter accepted to Europe’s earliest drawing academy in Florence.
The Inclination became Artemisia’s first real ‘business card’ in a cultural climate in which she would later produce some of her greatest paintings for the Medici court. Artemisia UpClose, a project conceived and funded by Calliope Arts and Christian Levett, was developed in conjunction with Casa Buonarroti Museum and Foundation, where the painting and its restoration sparked new research on Artemisia as a painter and a person, before becoming the raison d’être of the exhibition ‘Artemisia in the Museum of Michelangelo’.
Artemisia’s Inclination
Margie MacKinnon
Artemisia in the museum of Michelangelo
Alessandro Cecchi
Artemisia and Michelangelo
Mary D. Garrard
Unveiling the restoration
Elizabeth Wicks
The poet, the painter and the philosopher
Elizabeth Cropper
The quest for Inclination
Cristina Acidini
Artemisa’s palette
Barbara Salvadori, Donata Magrini, Sofia Brizzi
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