One of the more successful interpreters of Caravaggio’s style.

His father was a Florentine artist who had moved to Pisa, the city where he was born on a day in July. What he has painted represents a creative synthesis in perfect balance between physical concreteness and abstraction. He knew the art of Rubens. In Genoa and London he was able to deepen his knowledge with Van Dick. ORAZIO GENTILESCHI was attentive to contemporary artistic events. In Rome he had observed the paintings by Caravaggio and the frescoes by Annibale Carracci and those by Guido Reni. To admire one of his “Madonna with Child” (oil on canvas, 131x91cm, 1604), you can go to the National Gallery of Ancient Art of Palazzo Corsini, in Rome.

At the age of thirteen he had traveled to Rome, serving the decorative enterprises of two popes. ORAZIO GENTILESCHI had also been the master of some talented artists (like his daughter Artemisia, Hendick Tebruggen and Vermeer). By painting, he managed to create a poetic dimension, always wrapped in a serenely harmonious vision. Since 1600, his way of painting had begun to be based on direct observation. Also for this reason he loved to choose as his models the people he knew. In Vatican City, visit the Vatican Pinacoteca, to see one of his paintings from 1611 (oil on canvas, 123x142cm): Giuditta and the slave with the head of Holofernes.

In 1624 he went to the court of the Queen of France, importing the news of Italian painting in Northern Europe. In 1626 he was at the London court of Charles I in England, where he died. By observing his landscapes with meticulous workmanship, you too will certainly be impressed by the brightness of the colors that enhance its amazement towards the beauty of nature. ORAZIO GENTILESCHI was a careful painter in the study of compositions with shapes and colors. His works, wrapped in a warm light, are impregnated with the pursuit of essentiality. In Urbino, inside the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, you have the opportunity to add something to your memories, that is his 1619 painting “The Virgin presenting the Child to St. Frances of Rome”.

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