At the Palazzo Braschi-Museum in Rome (November 30 - May 7), Artemisia Gentileschi's gift for painting, rather than her tormented personal life, is highlighted as a symbol of a female capable of standing her ground in the androcentric world that surrounded her.
Gentileschi's works - including her masterpieces Judith Slaying Holofernes (on loan from the Capodimonte Museum in Naples) and Esther before Ahasuerus (on loan from the Met Museum in New York) - are displayed alongside paintings by her father Orazio, as well as other 17th-century masters such as Vouet, Guido Cagnacci, Baglione and Ribera.
Meanwhile, at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's work will be exhibited from December 3 - June 4.
Palladio is renowned for not wanting to leave any trace of himself or his appearance for posterity, but in the exhibition 'Palladio: The Mystery of the Face', rare 18th-century portraits go on display along with more recent discoveries, including a recently-acquired Neoclassical bust commissioned by Canova.
Also opening on December 3 (until February 26) is an exhibition at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, featuring a newly rediscovered masterpiece by 16th-century artist Lorenzo Lotto.
The work is an intarsia panel from 1523 designed by Lotto and depicting the Creation from the city's Luogo Pio Colleoni Museum.
The exhibition at the Miramare Castle Museum in Trieste (November 30 - March 5), marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Joseph I of Austria, highlighting his travels to Miramare Castle, which was commissioned as a family residence by his younger brother the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Hapsburg.
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