Google today pays tribute to Artemisia Gentileschi

Dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 - Naples, 1654) is today’s Google search engine doodle. The doodle is a special version of the company’s logo, inspired by a character from history: on the day it celebrates him, Google keeps it active all day in homage to the “celebrated” personality. And on July 8, 1593, the painter Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome, remembered by Google with a doodle that recalls the very famous Portrait as an Allegory of Painting of 1638-1639 preserved at the Royal Collection in Windsor.

Artemisia Gentileschi is best known for the rape she suffered from the painter Agostino Tassi (Rome, 1578 - 1644), for which she has become, since the 1970s, a sort of ante litteram feminist icon, partly because she was able to become an independent female artist in an environment and at a time when women were not allowed to emerge. In fact, recent studies have eliminated all prejudices about rape by showing how Artemisia was able to overcome events related to violence very quickly, and in fact her most “violent” paintings have little or nothing to do with her personal vicissitudes( we elaborate on this inthis article ).

Her story thus remains that of a rare case (though not unique, and not the first: recall the contemporary or earlier stories of great artists such as Lavinia Fontana, Fede Galizia, and Elisabetta Sirani) of a woman who was able to carve out an autonomous role for herself in a context in which everything was infinitely more difficult for a woman.

Google today pays tribute to Artemisia Gentileschi

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