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which the .hlel lwd Sisenl fell far short. In the JHel Hnd ..S)senl the figures appear as light-an-dark silhouettes depriving the work of mood or atmosphere. The result is one of the least powerful pictures ,"vithin the oeuvre of Artemisia. In terms of anatomical depiction, the Detroit picture makes subtle advances over Artemisia's other pictures including the Uffizi Judith, the Penitent il-h{Rthilen. and the illinen'll. As for dating the Detroit painting, one should consider that it shows advancement over the above mentioned pictures. To determine a date for Artemisia's pictures, one cannot assume her work shows a linear progression of quality. But in the case of the Detroit Judith, the painting's Caravaggesque lighting and sophisticated space suggest a date in the late part of her Roman years, just before she left for Naples. However, of A.rtemisia's output in Rome, in fact, nothing except the Oonl111oniere and the Burghley 5'U}'iWnH is certainly known. Bissell hypothesized that the Capodimonte Jud.1th Rnd Holofernes might belong to Artemisia's Roman period, but he was not aware of the penlimenli in this picture which led Garrard and later scholars to a different conclusion. 1 Garrard gives it a relatively early date of ca. 1612-13, well prior the date usually hypothesized for the Uffizi verSiOn, a Florentine picture, whih as he have seen, it appears to predate.

1Garrard , 1989, 32 and n. 35. The X rays were made at her request in 1983 at the National Gallery of "'lash D C See p. 48 abo\e

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which Schutze and Willette date within five years following the

JOhn T;i.king· Lei/Fe, represents a general shift in Stanzione's style.2

Stanzione's Sf 4fl/tb;/ in Capodimonte in its pose, gesture, and contrasting lights and darks call to mind Artemisia's allegorical

Clio of 1632, a subject appropriate for academic painters but one which Caravaggio would not have depicted late in his career. Artemisia, nevertheless, worked it up in a manner that derives from the master's method. The figure's flesh and occasional highlights emerge from the darkened background. The paint and the brushwork still depict a freshness and vibrancy even in the blank background. . Artemisia may have adapted more quickly to the freer style of Neapolitan painting, but Stanzione appears to have caught up with her. Unlike Stanzione, Bernardo Cavallino was a painter whose entire output exemplifies the bravura, painterly style associated with Neapolitan painting after 1630. He, too, is an artist who, in my view, worked closely with Artemisia. Cavallino was born in 1616 and would have been only fourteen or fifteen years of age when Artemisia came to Naples. In terms of Cavallino's formal training, De Dominici states that he studied with Massimo Stanzione. Given Artemisia's collaboration with Stanzione, Cavallino probably knew Artemisia and was probably influenced by her. But because

2Schutze and Willette, 212. date the Sf. Dorot4v at the end of the 1630s, while the .st. JOhn is given the dates 1633 35.

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two left-side figures are pictorially cropped. If this were so, the original painting, mentioned as 8 x 10 p;ilmi(211 x 264 cm), would have been larger than the extant picture which measures 148 x 203 cm. Grabski feels such a disparity in horizontal size between the documented picture and the existing one would allow for a fifth triton to originally have been present on the left side. Certainly, another figure would have balanced the space surrounding the picture's central figure.

Though the extant Gal;il.e;/ may have been altered, it is also possible that Artemisia could have painted several Galatea pictures. In the last of Artemisia's letters referring to a Galatea, she wrote, (November, 1649) expressing a willingness to repeat a subject, and went on to emphasize that, "...never has anyone found in my pictures any repetition of invention, not even of one hand." 1 That Artemisia could well have painted another G;/};il.e;/ makes Grabski's hypothesis difficult to prove. Artemisia, like her father, repeated subjects and (despite her above-cited claim to the contrary) compositions, sometimes with variations. (Her many versions of Judith and Holofernes illustrate this propensity.) For this reason, I do not find it necessary to match the extant G;/};il.e;/ with the Ruffo inventory.

Conceivably, several Artemisian G;/};/i.eJis could have existed including Ruffo's version with five tritons and the Feigen picture which has four tritons.

ITranslation from Garrard, 1989, 397. This quote demonstrates that even first-hand documentation from an artist is not always accurate.

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dated in her career to 1620 and 1640, respectively. As for dating the Fogg picture, she states, "The styles of the various periods in her career do not seem to be, as yet, clearly enough differentiated to indicate where, between these two dates (the work) should be

placed. "I In May of 1976, Fahy changed his attribution, supporting the artist Paolo Finoglia. Since that time, the museum has accepted his suggestion. 2 In 1978, Freedberg acknowledged the complications of the changing attributions but did not refute Fahy.3 To date, the

Fogg museum lists the picture as "attributed to Paolo Finoglia". 4 To further add to the debate, Nicolson proposed in 1979 that

the artist was a "follower of Simon Vouet. "5 Garrard, in 1989, defended the attribution back to Artemisia and states, "(This) painting is surely by Artemisia, and was probably painted early in

her second Roman period... "6 Garrard was supported in her opinion by Stolzenwald in 1991. 7 However, Stolzenwald presented no new evidence nor any rationale for her attribution. In addition to the possible painters suggested in publication, the Fogg Museum's files have additional letters suggesting the

lIbido 2Fogg file (1962.163). 3"Lorenzo Lotto to Nicolas Poussin," Apollo 107, no. 195 (197B), 395 4Ferdinando Bologno, ed., Battistello Caracciolo e i1 primo naturalismo a Naf,!.Q.1i. (Naples: Electa Napoli: 1991), 291-92. The Fogg picture was lent to this exhibition with the attribution to rinoglia. 5Benedict Nicolson, The International Caravag~ue Moyement, Lists of Pictures by.: Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979),110. 6Garrard, 19B9,BO. 7Stolzenwald, like Garrard, assigns the picture to Artemisia's Roman years.

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Figure 18. Artemisia Gentileschi, The Annunciatioo.

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Figure 37. Massimo Stanzione, Sf John ~1king Le,,1ve of His Parents.

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