Artemisia Gentileschi's Lucretia, Orazio's Danaë

<p>Episode No. 501 features curator <strong>Davide Gasporotto</strong> and conservator <strong>Marcia Steele.</strong></p> <p>Gasporotto, the senior curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, recently acquired Artemisia Gentileschi's <em>Lucretia</em> (about 1627) for the museum. It went on view for the first time when the Getty re-opened after its pandemic-related closure.</p> <p>Gentileschi's Lucretia shows the wife of Roman nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. After Lucretia was raped by a son of the king, she stabbed herself to death. Her suicide led to a rebellion that drove the ruling family from Rome and led to the the foundation of the Roman Republic. She was favorite subject of Renaissance and Baroque art.</p> <p>Marcia Steele led the conservation of Orazio Gentileschi's 1621-22 <em>Danaë</em> at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The conserved picture debuts in <a href= "https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/variations-reuse-models-paintings-orazio-and-artemisia-gentileschi"> "Variations: The Reuse of Models in Paintings by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi,"</a> which is on view through August 22. Steele just retired as senior conservator at the museum.</p>