Name: Artemisia
Start: 2025-03-19
End: 2025-10-02
Location: Musée Jacquemart-André

The Musée Jacquemart-André will be honouring the Roman artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - circa 1656). As one of the rare female artists of the modern era to have achieved international fame during her lifetime and to have been able to make a living from her painting, this Caravaggesque painter had an extraordinary destiny. Featuring some forty paintings, ranging from the artist’s recognised masterpieces to canvases of recent attribution, as well as paintings rarely shown outside their usual place of conservation, this exhibition highlights Artemisia Gentileschi’s role in the history of 17th century art.

The exhibition aims to demonstrate the profound originality of her work, career and identity, which remain a source of inspiration and fascination to this day. Artemisia’s story spans the centuries, and the reading we can make of her work – a reflection of her experience and resilience – is timeless and universal.

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The team

Curatorship

Patrizia Cavazzini is a researcher associate at the British School in Rome, an advisor to the American Academy and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Borghese Gallery. She is the author of numerous books on art collecting and the art market in Rome, as well as on biographies of 17th-century painters, including Artemisia Gentileschi. She co-curated the exhibition ‘Meraviglia senza tempo’ at the Borghese Gallery (2022-2023)

Maria Cristina Terzaghi is a professor of the history of modern art at the University of Rome Tre and a member of the scientific committee of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. A specialist in seventeenth-century painting and sculpture, her research focuses on the paintings of the Caravaggesque artists, as well as the painting and sculpture of the Roman Baroque. She was scientific consultant for the exhibition ‘Caravaggio in Rome: friends and enemies’ (Musée Jacquemart-André, 2018-2019) and curator of the exhibition ‘Caravaggio e Artemisia’ (Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 2021-2022). In 2017, she was awarded a grant from the Paul Mellon Center in London to finalise her book Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Between Paris and London.

Pierre Curie is General Curator of Heritage. A specialist in 17th-century Italian and Spanish painting, he also worked on 19th-century French painting at the Musée du Petit Palais, where he began his career as a curator. He was subsequently put in charge of painting at the Inventaire Général, and co-edited and edited the Vocabulaire typologique et technique de la peinture et du dessin (published in 2009). Appointed head of the painting section of the restoration department of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France in 2007, he has coordinated and overseen a number of major restorations of paintings in national museums (Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Rembrandt, Poussin, etc.). Pierre Curie has been curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André since January 2016 and co-curator of all its exhibitions.

Production and organisation

Emmanuelle Lussiez, Director of Exhibitions at Culturespaces
Milly Passigli, Deputy Director of Exhibition programming
Léa Duval, Exhibitions Registrar at the Musée Jacquemart-André
Bernadette Roux, Exhibitions Manager at the Musée Jacquemart-André
Livia Lérès and Domitille Sechet, responsible for iconography at Culturespaces