\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter.\par
This Italian painter was born at Pisa in 1563 to a Florentine family. His father, Giovanni Battista Lo
mi, was a goldsmith. In 1576-8 he went to Rome to stay with Gentileschi, one of his maternal uncles, whose surname he adopted. The long period of his formation appears to have been influenced by late Mannerism. Around the beginning of the century he came
into contact with Caravaggio, giving evidence on his behalf at the trial of 1603. He retained the dignified characteristics and cool orchestration of colors from his early training, offering a rigorous, almost conceptual interpretation of CaravaggioÆs r
ealism that is at times covertly erotic and worldly.\par
Works like the \i Saint Francis and the Angel\i0 in the Museo del Prado and the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica in Rome and the \i David and Goliath \i0 in the National Gallery of Dublin and th
e Galleria Spada in Rome can be dated to this period. In 1612 he moved to the Marche, probably as a consequence of family problems. The frescoes in the cathedral of San Venanzo at Fabriano must have been painted between 1613 and 1616. In 1621 he was sent
to work in Genoa by the nobleman Giovanni Antonio Sauli, for whom he painted a number of large canvases. In 1624 Gentileschi left for Paris at the invitation of Marie de MΘdicis. He stayed there until 1626, when he left for the court of Charles I in Eng
