Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He was born in Tuscany.
• Orazio Lomi Gentileschi began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style.
• He received important commissions in Fabriano and Genoa before moving to Paris to the court of Marie de Medici.
• He painted the figures for Agostino Tassi's landscapes in the Palazzo Rospigliosi.
• He spent the last part of his life at the court of Charles I of England.
• He was the father of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: The Penitent, Mary Magdalene, c. 1622-28.
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Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Danaë and the Shower of Gold, 1621-23

Original, The J. Paul Getty Museum. Visited in 2018.

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Danaë and the Shower of Gold, 1621-23

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, The Penitent, Mary Magdalene, c. 1622-28

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-2020.

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, The Penitent, Mary Magdalene, c. 1622-28

Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco, Saint Cecilia and an Angel, c. 1617-1618 and c. 1621-1627

Original, NGA, Washington, DC. Visited in 2017-18.

Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco, Saint Cecilia and an Angel, c. 1617-1618 and c. 1621-1627

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, St. Francis Supported by an Angel, c. 1600

Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Visited in 2017-18.

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, St. Francis Supported by an Angel, c. 1600

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, The Lute Player, c. 1612-1620

Original, NGA, Washington, DC. Visited in 2017-18.

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, The Lute Player, c. 1612-1620

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Lot and his daughters, c. 1622-23

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Lot and his daughters, c. 1622-23

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Landscape with St. Christopher, c. 1610-15

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Landscape with St. Christopher, c. 1610-15

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, 1621-24

Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Visited in 2019.

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, c. 1620

Original, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Visited in 2019.

Orazio Lomi Gentileschi, Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, c. 1620

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1612

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-2020.

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1612

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, Young Woman with a Violin (Saint Cecilia), ca. 1612

Original, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts. Visited in 2020.

Orazio Lomo Gentileschi, Young Woman with a Violin (Saint Cecilia), ca. 1612

Orazio Gentileschi, Public Happiness Triumphs over Danger, about 1623-1625

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Orazio Gentileschi, Public Happiness Triumphs over Danger, about 1623-1625

Orazio Gentileschi, Rest during the flight to Egypt, c. 1628

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Orazio Gentileschi, Rest during the flight to Egypt, c. 1628