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So today I'm going to talk about this girl right here who is Artemisia Gentileschi.

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She was a painter and she was born in 1593 in Rome and is the daughter of Horacio Gentileschi

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who was a painter too.

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In fact, she learned how to paint in her father's workroom and was inspired by Caravaggio who

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was a very influential painter at that time.

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She was an artist of exceptional talent and you can see that because she was the first

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woman to enter the Academy of Bellas Artes of Florence, where Miguel Ángel, who is this

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guy, had studied too. She suffered from indifference and rejection from the people around her and

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she also overcame the humiliation that most of her paintings and works, if not every work

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she had done, were attributed to other men or even her father. Nowadays, last year, she

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She was dedicated an exposition in the Braschi Palace, which was called Artemisia and her

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time.

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And here you can see Susana y los viejos, which is a painting she painted and I'm going

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to talk about it later.

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So now you'll be wondering why she's famous or why is she important.

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Well, everything started with this man right here, who is Agostino Tassi.

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He was a painter that was hired with her father, Horacio, to paint the frescoes of the Casa

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de las Musas, for example this one that is in the garden.

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The frescoes are a type of paintings in the walls.

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So they were hired to paint it together and when Horacio got enough confidence to invite

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Agostino into his home, Agostino raped Artemisia when she was 18 years old.

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So a year later, in 1611, she reported it, but as she had waited so long to do it, people

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started thinking it was fake and she only wanted to get attention and eventually everybody

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around her thought she was a liar.

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In 1612, the 27th of November, 27th, 28th, Agostino was declared guilty of raping her and his sentence was five years of exile.

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And here you can see a bit of a book written about the sentence, which says it would be reformulated on the following day, the 28th of November.

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and this sentence no longer mentioned the galleys nor the fine of 200 scudi,

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which was the coin for Italy back then,

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nor even the possibility of reprisals against Horacio Gentileschi.

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And though the sentence was confirmed, it was now limited in duration to only five years of exile,

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which basically means that most of the things Agostino had to do

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to compensate the rape were omitted in the sentence because he was a man so it was less

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important. Now she married a guy named Pierantonio Statesi two days after the sentence to recover

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her reputation but by the time she married him she portrayed she had already been portraying

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women as strong, powerful, heroes, suffering women in her paintings.

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For example, Susana and Los Viejos, the one which was in the exposition of the Braski

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Palace.

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You can see here Susana and two guys wanted to have relationships with her, but she's

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portrayed as a powerful woman that was rejecting them and you can see that she's not even thinking

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about saying yes. But her most famous work is Judith decapitando Olofernes and the story

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behind this painting is Olofernes, who was a general of the Assyrians, which was a zone

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in northern Mesopotamia, wanted to have sex with Judith but she didn't, so when he got

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drunk and fell asleep, she and her servant beheaded him. So some

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psychological studies say that this picture is believed to be a sign of

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revenge for Agostina's rape because the strokes are made with violence so people

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belief, she made it to show revenge to Agostino. So later, when she died in 1654 in Naples,

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she was forgotten, all her paintings were forgotten, her rape was forgotten, everything

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was forgotten about her, but then in mid 20th century, not until then, did she start getting

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appreciation by the people again and even in 1960 and 1970 between those decades she was a symbol of

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a gender fight and an icon of feminism so that was all and i hope you enjoyed