Quiet violence, Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith

[@nervlevler]

Gentileschi is hands down my favorite artist🙏 her connection to her art and the way she incorporates her own life story into this series is beautiful

[@Juliana-Bub]

Gentileschi is one of my favorites. Her Judith series is phenomenal.

[@omarwilliams9622]

Seening this painting in person blew me away. 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@marthavillegas6250]

Thanks for this, beautiful voices, great lesson.

[@marc18hro]

Thank you. There are many paintings picturing Judith and Holofernes. I like the Caravaggio version most of all.

[@Tsumami__]

Have you guys covered Artemisia’s Susanna and the Elders? I would love to see/hear that. Her version of that moment in that biblical story is one of the only ones I’ve seen that gives justice to Susanna

[@rjpennypacker1085]

i just hear the introductory musical bars of smart history and i am calm

[@radioactivedetective6876]

IIRC there are a couple of other Gentileschi paintings on the same Biblical story. The one which shows Judith at the act of beheading Holofernes makes a nice comparative study piece with Carravagio's beheading painting in terms of female expressions, the female body, the relationship between Judith and the maid, their respective ages, and so on and on

[@smarthistory-art-history]

You can watch our video on that painting here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHmppn-JbrOKbNU

[@radioactivedetective6876]

@@smarthistory-art-history Thanks a lot. I love your channel. It is great to get a reply.

[@alihaydarnar9543]

The baroque style ist tremendous

[@FinnmacD]

That opening piano riff is orgasmic

[@allertonoff4]

i was thinking about Caravaggio even as you spoke BUT .. i am very interested in high chiaroscuro Female Driven Narratives because i am living in one .. Great post BTW :]

[@carlberg7503]

Great painting, great lecture.

[@rustyw5842]

As a rank amateur, I greatly appreciate the variety of SmARTHistory's videos, especially the attention to detail and symbolism. Have you explained the difference between Baroque art and Counter-Reformation art?

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Thank you. We see the art of the Counter-Reformation as a part of the larger Baroque as it is traditionally defined but of course stylistic categories are never satisfactory. We do deal with these issues in one of the last of our four-part video series on the Reformation as well as those videos and essays that treat the churches of 17th-century Rome smarthistory.org/europe-1300-1800/baroque/baroque-art-italy/

[@rustyw5842]

@@smarthistory-art-history thank you for the explanation. I viewed an exhibit at Palazzo Strozzi on Pontormo. The explanatory text identified his works as exemplars of Counter-Reformation. I frankly failed to discern a tremendous difference between his compositions and those of Renaissance artists. And his pastel palette was the exact opposite of Caravaggio and Gentileschi's dramatically-lit scenes of violence and ecstasy.

[@darkestlight6784]

Enjoyed the story in the painting, thank you.

[@rustyw5842]

The technical aspects of this painting are marvelous. But IMO the painting fails on two important aspects: * Judith, who is the protagonist of the story, is almost completely obscured, while the unnamed servant is vibrant * Judith's sword appears to be imminently beheading the servant, not Holofernes - whose head is almost unrecognizable, at least in the photo that accompanies this video.

[@andrzejmaranda3699]

Important!

[@villentretenmerthjackdaw4205]

Have you covered any of Fra Angelico's works? Thank you for all your videos!

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Yes we have. smarthistory.org/fra-angelico-the-annunciation-c-1438-47/ and thank you for the kind words.

[@Sasha0927]

Yeah, everyone thinks it's ~staff and sheep Jesus~, but the Lord will call His faithful ones to war, too. lol. I appreciated the detail about the three dark arcs and wonder how intentional that was when she was planning this out...

[@smarthistory-art-history]

I suspect she was very aware of that compositional structure.

[@Sasha0927]

@@smarthistory-art-history 😂🙊 Well played.. I'd so love to see the artistic process.

[@giovil]

Finally!!!

[@kaanaknc5039]

yhesss artemisia