Anewly restored work by Artemisia Gentileschi, never before seen in public, is set to go on show at the John Paul Getty Museum in California.
Among the ultramodern pavilions of the J.
Paul Getty Museum, on the Santa Monica hills, comes an unpublished piece of Italian art history.
From June 10 to September 14, the museum is hosting 'Artemisia's Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece', an exhibition dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi to celebrate the end of a complex restoration of a never-before-seen work by the Baroque painter.
It is the painting 'Hercules and Omphale', which depicts the hero of Greek mythology enslaved by the queen of Lydia (Omphale, precisely), forced to perform women's work (here he appears with a spindle in his hand) as punishment for having killed the young Iphitus.
