Artemisia taught her daughter to paint, but any work she produced is unknown. Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. View in Street View. A faraway temple can be seen through the window. She was a brave woman, in an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons. She was an admirer of Caravaggio, as was her father, and this can be seen in Venus and Cupid, in the form of the light around Venus's body, and the dark in the rest of the scene. Today she is considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio. Venus and Cupid (Sleeping Venus) is a 1626 artwork by the female Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Venus and Cupid Francesco Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi 1625/1630. She wears nothing except a thin wisp of transparent linen around her thigh. Our canvas prints are crafted with premium materials to ensure gallery quality. Italian Women Artists: From Renaissance to Baroque. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged The Nude in Art, Venus, Cupid and Greek and Roman Mythology. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, United States. Credit Line: Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund. Artemisia Gentileschi, Venus and Cupid, ca. Grabski, Józef. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Your daily dose of art Venus and Cupid Artemisia Gentileschi 1625/1630 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Artemisia Gentileschi’s Venus and Cupid is a painting of an angel caressing a woman resting on the bed. Venus and Cupid (Primary Title) Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian, 1593 - 1652 (Artist) [2] The body movements are natural: Venus's hand rests lightly on her side, her legs are gently laid together. Venus and Cupid is a painting produced by Artemisia Gentileschi in 1625. "Venus and Cupid" was painted by Artemisia Gentileschi in … She was initially taught by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, in his workshop. The Italian artist depicts sleeping Venus who is wearing nothing except a thin wisp of transparent linen around her thigh. Date: 1625/1630. Great Women Masters of Art. Venus and Cupid. In actuality, the painting is about Venus, the Goddess of Love, who is asleep in a very luxurious and classical environment. $43.75 $87.50. It is possible that a second artist was commissioned to paint the landscape at the top left of the painting.[4]. And for the most part Rick Mather, the British architect, delivers. The painting was part of the Barbera Piasecka Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey. Artemisia Gentileschi was an extremely important figure in the world of art. She painted the Allegory of Inclination, which featured a naked woman with a compass, who slightly resembles Artemisia herself. Artemisia Gentileschi: Venus and Cupid. Venus and Cupid (Gentileschi), a 1627 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi; Venus and Cupid, a painting by Lotto; Venus and Cupid, a painting by Pontormo; Venus and Cupid, the popular name of the 2005 sculpture, Love, The Most Beautiful Of Absolute Disasters, by Shane A. Johnstone; Venus and Amor, also known as Venus and Cupid, a 1524 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger She wears nothing except a thin wisp of transparent linen around her thigh. 2002. View in Augmented Reality. Venus and Cupid is a depiction of a sleeping Venus, who reclines on a blue bed covering and rich crimson and gold tasseled pillow. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. Artemisia Gentileschi’s Venus and Cupid is a painting of an angel caressing a woman resting on the bed. Details. This lends to the thought that the painting could have been done as a commission for a rich client. oil on canvas. The painting shows Venus asleep, naked, lying on her blue bed. The painting can now be viewed in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A faraway temple can be seen through the window. Dimensions: 38 × 56 5/8 in. Creator: Artemesia Gentileschi. The work blends together realism and classicism through its iconography and the artist's style. As usual, success comes at a cost—the cost of compromise. It lives at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the United States. Mann, Judith W., ed. In actuality, the painting is about Venus, the Goddess of Love, who is asleep in a very luxurious and classical environment. Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Januarius in the Amphitheatre at Pozzuoli, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venus_and_Cupid_(Gentileschi)&oldid=970291038, Paintings of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 96.52 cm (38.00 in) × 143.83 cm (56.63 in), This page was last edited on 30 July 2020, at 12:53.