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It’s a tidy introduction to the That’s What I Do I Read Books And I Forget Things Bear Shirt but in fact I love this series of works for which Gentileschi is best known—namely, the Judith and Holofernes paintings—and the chapter in her life story that has, for those with any passing knowledge of her work, often overshadowed her achievements as an artist. At the age of 18, Artemisia was raped by Agostino Tassi, an artist friend of her father, Orazio Gentileschi, at the workshop where she was undergoing her apprenticeship. This led to a seven-month, high-profile court case, following which Tassi was exiled from Rome. The details of the trial are laid bare within the exhibition, which includes transcripts of Artemisia’s testimony—remarkable for the clarity with which her voice still rings out today.

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, circa 1613–14, oil on canvas, 199 × 162.5 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence It’s here again that Treves was forced to grapple with the That’s What I Do I Read Books And I Forget Things Bear Shirt but in fact I love this delicate tension between presenting Artemisia’s life as it was, and the risk of sensationalizing it. Eventually, she decided that the benefits of including these legal documents outweighed the possibility they might eclipse the art itself. “The more I read and thought about the letters and the fact that her voice is so strong, I felt it was the right choice to ask for the transcript,” Treves explains. “For me, it’s not just about the episode of her rape and the ordeal afterwards and the court proceedings. It’s about giving Gentileschi her voice from that very first room, and the rarity of being so in touch with the voice of an artist from 400 years ago, as we are in her letters too. I definitely felt it belonged in the show.”

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