From October 21, 2026, through April 4, 2027, the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence will host a monographic exhibition entirely focused on the Florentine period of Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 – Naples, after 1564). The exhibition aims to explore a crucial and formative phase in the painter’s personal and artistic journey, marked by her departure from Rome and her deep integration into the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fabric of 17th-century Medici-ruled Tuscany.
The exhibition, titled *Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence* and curated by Costantino D’Orazio, Cristina Acidini, and Sandro Bellesi, focuses on Artemisia’s stay in Florence, which marks the moment when the artist reached her creative maturity. Having left behind the complex and oppressive media attention that had marked her time in the capital, the painter found in the Tuscan city the ideal conditions to assert her talent. It was precisely in Florence that she achieved institutional milestones of exceptional significance for the time: Artemisia became, in fact, the first woman ever to be admittedto the Academy of the Arts of Drawing. During her years in Florence, she attracted the attention and esteem of the Medici court, receiving highly prestigious commissions from the grand ducal family, forming friendships and associations with leading intellectuals such as Galileo Galilei, and engaging with the city’s foremost contemporary artists.
Visitors will also be able to view works by artists active at the time, ranging from Cristofano Allori to Francesco Furini, including Cesare Dandini, Giovanni Martinelli, Filippo Tarchiani, Fabrizio Vannini, Lorenzo Lippi, “il Volterrano,” Jacopo Vignali, and numerous other leading figures of that artistic era. Also on display are two works by Caravaggio: the ideal and visual affinity between the Lombard master’s works and Artemisia Gentileschi’s oeuvre aims to offer further insight into the stylistic influences, dramatic realism, and the use of light that have indelibly shaped the painter’s stylistic signature—she was able to reinterpret Caravaggio’s legacy by integrating it into the refined sensibility of the Florentine context.
The production and organization of the exhibition are entrusted to Arthemisia, which is renewing its collaboration with the Museo degli Innocenti, working in synergy with Cristoforo and under the patronage of the City of Florence. The exhibition is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. (the ticket office closes one hour earlier). Exhibition + Museo degli Innocenti tickets: full price 16 euros, reduced price 14 euros, all-access pass 19 euros.
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| An exhibition in Florence on Artemisia Gentileschi and her time in Florence |
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