Artemisia Gentileschi's Florentine Years Reconstructed at Museo degli Innocenti
«Artemisia Gentileschi a Firenze» will be showcased at the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence from 20 October 2026 to 4 April 2027. This exhibition, curated by Cristina Acidini, Sandro Bellesi, and Costantino D'Orazio, focuses on the artist's time in Tuscany from 1613 to 1620, featuring more than fifty pieces from over forty different museums and collections. It explores Artemisia's artistic development under her father, Orazio Gentileschi, her legal battle against Agostino Tassi in 1612, and her marriage to Pierantonio Stiattesi. Notably, she became the first female member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1616. Significant works include Allegoria dell'Inclinazione and Giuditta con l'ancella. After leaving Florence in 1620, she moved to Naples in 1630 and then to London in 1638.
Key facts
- «Artemisia Gentileschi a Firenze» runs at the Museo degli Innocenti from 20 October 2026 to 4 April 2027
- Curators are Cristina Acidini, Sandro Bellesi and Costantino D'Orazio
- Arthemisia produced and organised the show with Cristoforo, under Comune di Firenze patronage
- Over fifty works come from more than forty museums, foundations and collections
- Artemisia lived in Florence from 1613 to 1620
- In 1616 she became the first woman admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, founded in 1563
- Agostino Tassi was tried in Rome in 1612 and convicted; Artemisia faced the sibille torture
- The Allegoria dell'Inclinazione (1615–1616) was commissioned by Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane for Casa Buonarroti
- The Dickinson Mondafrutto, attributed to Caravaggio, reappeared at a 1996 London auction and was recognised by John T. Spike
- Roberto Longhi's studies contributed to reattributing the Giuditta con l'ancella to Artemisia
- Artemisia moved to Naples in 1630 and to London in 1638, returning to Naples after Orazio's death in 1639
Entities
Artists
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Orazio Gentileschi
- Caravaggio
- Michelangelo Merisi
- Agostino Tassi
- Pierantonio Stiattesi
- Cristina Acidini
- Sandro Bellesi
- Costantino D'Orazio
- Cristofano Allori
- Jacopo da Empoli
- Passignano
- Matteo Rosselli
- Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Galileo Galilei
- Francesco Furini
- Cesare Dandini
- Giovanni Martinelli
- Filippo Tarchiani
- Ottavio Vannini
- Lorenzo Lippi
- il Volterrano
- Jacopo Vignali
- John T. Spike
- Roberto Longhi
- Antiveduto Gramatica
- Cristina di Lorena
- Carlo I d'Inghilterra
Institutions
- Museo degli Innocenti
- Arthemisia
- Cristoforo
- Comune di Firenze
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
- Casa Buonarroti
- Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni
- Sursock Palace Collection
- Palazzo Baldeschi
- Fondazione Orintia Carletti Bonucci
- Galleria Nazionale
- Arte Magazine
- Musée des Innocents
- Medici
Locations
- Florence
- Italy
- Rome
- Tuscany
- Naples
- London
- England
- United Kingdom
- Beirut
- Lebanon
- Perugia
- Terni
- Narni