GENTILESCHI, ARTEMSIA and °RAMO DE, painters. Orazio, 1565-1646, is gen erally named Orazio Lomi de Gentilesehi. It would appear that De Gentileschi was his real surname, Lomi being the surname which his mother had borne during her first marriage. He was born at Pisa, and studied with his half brother Aurelio DMA, whom in course of time he surpassed. He afterwards went to Rome, and was asso ciated with the landscape painter Agostind Tasi, executing the figures for the landscape backgrounds for this artist in the palazzo Rospigliosi, and it is said in the great hall of the Quirinal palace, although by some authorities the figures in the last-named building are ascribed to Lanfranchi. His best works are " Saints Cecelia and Valerian," in the palazzo Borghese, Rome; "David after the Death of Goliath," in the palazzo Doria, Genoa; and some works in the royal palace, Turin, noticeable for vivid and uncommon coloring. At an advanced age, Gentileschi went to England, at the invitation of Charles I., and was employed in the palace at Greenwich. Vandyck included him in his portraits of a hundred illustrious inch. His works are generally strong in shadow
and positive in color. He died in England. Artemisia, 1500-1642, Orazio's daughter, studied first under Guido, acquired much renown for portrait-painting, and considerably excelled her father's fame. She was a beautiful and elegant woman; her likeness, limped by her own hand, is to be seen in Hampton Court. Her most celebrated com position is "Judith and Holofernes," in the Pitti palace; certainly a work of singular energy, and giving ample proof of executive faculty, but repulsive and unfeminine in its physical horror. She accompanied her father to England, but did not remain there long. The best picture-which she produced for Charles I. was "David with the Head of Goliath." Artemisia refused an offer of marriage from Agostino Tasi, and bestowed her hand on Pier Antonio Schiattesi, continuing, however, to use her own surname. She settled in Naples, whither she returned after her English sojourn. She lived there in no little splendor, and died there. She had a daughter, and perhaps other children.