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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.95,0:00:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello and wellcome to he \NArtemisia Gentileschi exhibition
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.78,0:00:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the National Gallery
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.44,0:00:14.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Artemisia was one of the greatest\Nof all baroque artists
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.100,0:00:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she was also a woman\Nand that of course made her special
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.53,0:00:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in interesting ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.73,0:00:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, she wasn't \Nthe first woman artist in western art
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.04,0:00:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she was the first\Nwho imbued all her work
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.41,0:00:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a sense of her femininity.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.83,0:00:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes her work powerful,\Nit makes it pioneering
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.33,0:00:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it certainly makes it exciting.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.76,0:00:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you come through the door,\Nthe first picture you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.56,0:00:53.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of slaps you around\Nthe face really is this,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.60,0:00:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it shows this famous biblical story\Nof Susanna and the elders.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.60,0:01:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susanna was a hebrew wife
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.20,0:01:04.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was lusted over by a couple\Nof old men in the village.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.23,0:01:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they watched her while she was bathing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.89,0:01:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tried to force her\Nto have sex with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.10,0:01:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She refused and they took her to court.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.85,0:01:13.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They lost the case, she won the case.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.72,0:01:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's a kind of feminist story,\Nif you like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.58,0:01:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Artemisia has made something \Nso creepy out of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.52,0:01:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of baroque artists painted \NSusanna and the elders
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.51,0:01:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but never with this intimate sense\Nof the blokes crushing into her space,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.81,0:01:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaning right over\Ninto her confidence zone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.69,0:01:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the really extraordinary thing here
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.28,0:01:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that when she painted this\Nshe was probably 16 at most 17.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.79,0:01:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this show ahead of us tells us\Nan awful lot of things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.42,0:01:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Artemisia Gentileschi.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.46,0:01:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one of the first things it says\Nis that she was a prodigy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.70,0:01:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She could paint better earlier
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.60,0:01:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than just about anybody else\Nin western art.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.57,0:01:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.89,0:02:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Artemisia was 17,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.75,0:02:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was raped by a friend\Nof her father's,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.58,0:02:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another painter called Agostino Tassi
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.62,0:02:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this rape was to have\Na powerful impact on her life, of course
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.01,0:02:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was a very infamous court case\Nthat resulted from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.16,0:02:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the things\Nthey've got here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.97,0:02:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an actual transcript of the court\Nproceedings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.84,0:02:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what's wonderful about it,\Nis that you can hear Artemisia's voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.36,0:02:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the things she said, the way she spoke.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.52,0:02:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes they tortured her\Nto make sure she was telling the truth
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.69,0:02:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she always came back\Nwith these snappy reposts,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.08,0:02:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these witty answers
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.81,0:02:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she emerges in this show\Nas someone who wasn't just a tragic victim
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.91,0:02:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but was a really rounded \Nand interesting figure.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.32,0:02:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.27,0:02:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is probably Artemisia's \Nmost famous image,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.96,0:02:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so famous she did it twice
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.24,0:02:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fortunately the National Gallery
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.34,0:02:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,managed to get\Nboth versions up at once.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.86,0:03:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's "Judith beheading Holofernes".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.22,0:03:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Judith was a jewish heroine\Nwho fought back against Holofernes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.02,0:03:09.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and beheaded him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.36,0:03:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, a very feminine subject
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.86,0:03:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a subject which,\Nbecause of Artemisia's rape
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.68,0:03:15.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,felt particularly personal.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.14,0:03:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what i like is the way \Nthe two pictures are subtly different.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.96,0:03:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, they're both gory
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.14,0:03:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because one of the great lessons\Nof Caravaggio
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.67,0:03:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that violence is something\Nthat makes people look at art.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.88,0:03:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a bit like Sam Peckinpah movies\Nin the 80s and 90s.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.79,0:03:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, violence is just something\Nthat shakes you out of your everyday rythm
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.60,0:03:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makes you notice things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.48,0:03:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's wonderful\Nis the actual detail here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.80,0:03:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at this gigantic sword\Nthat she's wielding
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.31,0:03:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as she cuts off the poor guy's head.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.42,0:03:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here there's just\Na little bit of blood
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.83,0:03:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pouring out of him, it's savage,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.78,0:03:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's not quite a gore fest.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.81,0:03:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time she does this,\Nthe second version,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.36,0:03:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wow, look at the blood there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.79,0:04:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's pouring out like water\Nfrom a baroque fountain.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.77,0:04:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a piece of drama that is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.19,0:04:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the National Gallery\Ndidn't own any Artemisia Gentileschi
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.20,0:04:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still a couple of years ago\Nwhen, very fortunately,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.68,0:04:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they managed to buy\Nthis masterpiece by her.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.29,0:04:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is Saint Catherine\Nwho was tortured
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.42,0:04:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a horrible wooden wheel\Nwith spikes in it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.53,0:04:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was turned over her,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.39,0:04:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also it's a self-portrait\Nof Artemisia.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.34,0:04:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, as Artemisia as Saint Catherine
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.68,0:04:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identifying fiercely with her.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.78,0:04:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is Artemisia as Saint Cecilia.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.68,0:04:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's another early christian martyr
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.23,0:04:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was tortured for her beliefs
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.86,0:04:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who became the patron saint of music.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.43,0:04:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why she's strumming away there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.26,0:04:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at that look on her face,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.54,0:04:55.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's very accusatory, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.72,0:04:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sort of picks you out and seems somehow\Nto make you feel a bit guilty.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.85,0:05:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's self-portraiture but self-portraiture\Nwith these bigger ambitions,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.09,0:05:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, to somehow reach across the ages
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.36,0:05:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and identify with these\Nsad martyred figures
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.01,0:05:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of young women\Nfrom the early christian days.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.84,0:05:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now this room here shows the work\Nthat she started to paint
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.96,0:05:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when she moved back to Rome\Nin the 1620s
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.59,0:05:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's particularly clear here
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.03,0:05:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that everywhere she went,\Neverytime she moved on,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.16,0:05:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her art changed a bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.29,0:05:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, this too\Nis Susanna and the Elders.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.62,0:05:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's that first subject in the show
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.96,0:05:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the creepy guys staring\Nat the naked woman
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.84,0:05:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but here it feels less antagonistic,\Nit's calmed down
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.24,0:05:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to be more \Nabout the beauty of the flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.68,0:05:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even the blokes don't look \Nquite as horrible as they do
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.53,0:05:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that wonderful picture\Nthat she painted when she was 16.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.50,0:05:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, there's an attempt here, I think,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.46,0:05:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become a slightly\Nmore respectable Artemisia.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.12,0:06:02.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's important to remember \Nthat she wasn't this feminist heroin
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.16,0:06:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beheading men all the way \Nthrough her career.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.14,0:06:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had these phases\Nand the show judges beautifully, I think.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.70,0:06:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The development from one phase to another.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.11,0:06:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although the show\Nis basically chronological
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.66,0:06:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and takes us through all \Nthe main periods of Artemisia's career
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.08,0:06:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it loses that chronology at the end
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.12,0:06:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with a bit of sneaky exhibition making
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.62,0:06:39.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it fast forwards \Nthrough the neapolitan years
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.39,0:06:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and brings us straight to the time\Nthat Artemisia spent in England,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.64,0:06:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because yes she came to England,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.99,0:06:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1638, just before the civil war.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.70,0:06:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She arrived here and worked
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.50,0:06:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on various decorative schemes\Nwith her father Orazio
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.30,0:06:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I really like here
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.30,0:07:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that this famous painting\Nwas also painted in England
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.65,0:07:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's one of her most famous images:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.29,0:07:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Artemisia Gentileschi,\Nembodying art,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.13,0:07:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,art itself,symbolically.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.51,0:07:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people have always said,\Nit's a self-portrait,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.08,0:07:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indeed, it's called a self-portrait,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.02,0:07:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we've seen the other self-portraits\Nin the show
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.42,0:07:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's clear that isn't her.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.06,0:07:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this isn't a literal self-portrait
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.96,0:07:23.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a symbolic self-portrait of her,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.54,0:07:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her presence, of what art \Ncan be in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.46,0:07:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because she's working\Nwith one figure,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.69,0:07:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's got that intensity about it again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.34,0:07:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's a fantastic ending\Nto a fantastic show.