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Saint Cecilia as a Lute Player

Artemisia Gentileschi

Saint Cecilia as a Lute Player

Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Original Title: Santa Cecilia come un suonatrice di liuto
  • Date: 1620
  • Style: Baroque
  • Genre: religious painting
  • Media: canvas, oil
  • Dimensions: 78.5 x 108 cm
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Santa Cecilia is an early painting by the baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter described as "a grand exception in the history of art - a successful woman painter in an era in which art was dominated by men."

The canvas was painted around 1620. It shows the saint playing a lute, with an organ, a customary attribute for her, in the background. It currently now in the Galleria Spada in Rome; it has been part of the Spada collection since the seventeenth century.

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