Gentileschi
Orazio Gentileschi
1563-1639
Orazio Lomi, called Gentileschi, his maternal name, which he passed on to his daughter, the painter Artemisia. Florentine School. Born 1563; died 1639. He was the son of a goldsmith, Giovanni Battista Lomi, and brother of a painter, Aurelio, who was probably his first teacher. Orazio went early to Rome, where he was influenced by Caravaggio and before this, perhaps, by Elsheimer. Yet he always retained something of early Florentine fondness for precise contour and cool colors. After about 1612 he was probably working chiefly in the Marches, but he evidently returned to Rome before going to Genoa, Turin, and Paris. From 1626 until his death he was in England, employed part of the time at the court of Charles I.
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