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Agostino Tassi (born Agostino Buonamici; 1578 – 1644) was an Italian landscape and seascape painter who was convicted of raping Artemisia Gentileschi in 1612. [1] Because he aspired to nobility he modified the details of his early life.
Aug 27, 2018 · Then in 1611 one of his friends, the painter Agostino Tassi, raped Gentileschi. The trial transcripts go into how she tried to push him away and even tried to stab him with a knife.
Agostino Tassi (1578-1644) was an Italian painter of landscapes and seascapes, who also worked as a frescoist and a master of Claude Lorrain. He was convicted of raping Artemisia Gentileschi, the daughter of his former teacher Orazio Gentileschi, in a famous trial that influenced feminist art history.
- Italian
- Perugia, Italy
Agostino Tassi (about 1580 - 1644) was born and died in Rome. He worked in Florence and Genoa, but by 1610 he was in Rome and documented as working on various decorative schemes there. Diana and Callisto, now given to Paul Bril, was formerly attributed to Tassi.
A painting by Agostino Tassi depicting an episode from Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered, showing Erminia writing Tancred's name on a tree. The web page provides details about the artwork, its provenance, and its infrared reflectogram.
Agostino Tassi was an Italian landscape and seascape painter, who was convicted of raping Artemisia Gentileschi in 1612. Because he aspired to nobility he modified the details of his...
Tassi also worked extensively in the Palazzo Lancellotti, Rome (1617-23); his latest recorded work is a frieze containing coastal scenes with shipwrecked boats, putti and landscapes in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj, Rome (1635).
