Artemisia Gentileschi - Esther before Ahasuerus - fine art print

Summary of the artpiece, which has the title Esther before Ahasuerus

"Esther before Ahasuerus" is an artpiece created by the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The original measures the size: 82 x 107 3/4in (208,3 x 273,7cm) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. It forms part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, 1969 (license: public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Gift of Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, 1969. Besides, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width. Artemisia Gentileschi was a female painter from Italy, whose style was mainly Baroque. The artist lived for 61 years, born in the year 1593 in Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy and died in the year 1654.

What does the original description of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art say about the artwork created by Artemisia Gentileschi? (© - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Artemisia worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. This painting, among her most ambitious, recounts the story of the Jewish heroine Esther, who appeared before King Ahasuerus to plead for her people, breaking with court etiquette and risking death. She fainted in the king’s presence, but her request found favor. The story is conceived not as a historical recreation but as a contemporary theatrical performance. Initially Artemisia included the detail of a black boy restraining a dog—still partly visible beneath the marble pavement, to the left of Ahasuerus’s knee.

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• Canvas: The printed canvas, which should not be confused with an artwork painted on a canvas, is a digital copy printed onto canvas fabric. Your canvas print of this work of art will let you turn your art print into a large size work of art like you know from art galleries. A canvas print has the advantage of being relatively low in weight, which means that it is easy to hang your Canvas print without the support of any wall-mounts. Hence, canvas prints are suitable for all types of walls.
• Printed acrylic glass (with real glass coating): A glossy print on acrylic glass, often described as a print on plexiglass, will turn the original work of art into home decoration. What is more, it is a great alternative option to aluminium and canvas fine art prints. The acrylic glass protects your selected art print against sunlight and external influences for many more years to come.
• Aluminium dibond (metal print): An Aluminium Dibond print is a print material with a true effect of depth - for a modern look and non-reflective surface structure. For your Direct Aluminium Dibond option, we print the work of art right on the surface of the white-primed aluminum. The white and bright parts of the work of art shimmer with a silk gloss, however without the glow. This direct UV print on aluminium is one of the most popular entry-level products and is a truly sophisticated way to showcase art, because it puts 100% of the viewer’s focus on the image.
• Poster print (canvas material): The Artprinta poster is a UV printed canvas with a slightly rough surface texture. It is qualified for framing the art replica with a special frame. Please keep in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of something between 2-6cm around the artwork to facilitate the framing.

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