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| Orazio Gentileschi St Francis supported by an Angel ca. 1600 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Stigmatization of St Francis ca. 1600-1601 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Orazio Gentileschi St Francis supported by an Angel ca. 1603 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
"Born in Pisa, the son of a Florentine goldsmith named Lomi, Orazio Gentileschi became famous under the name of his mother, which he assumed at an early age. His half-brother, the Mannerist painter Aurelio Lomi, was an artist of some importance in the history of Florentine and Genoese painting. At the age of seventeen, Orazio went to Rome. . . . His early works are surprising, due to a simplicity and straight linearity of composition that one would not expect in an artist trained under the Mannerists in Rome, and no less so because of the great restraint in respect to motifs involving action. When he fell under the influence of Caravaggio, the artist significantly strengthened his pictorial effect through his use of chiaroscuro as well as by means of the rich and tasteful costuming of his figures; yet he never relinquished the characteristic primitivism in his use of line, which remains suggestive of the Florentine tradition. . . . Gentileschi's art stands in almost total isolation within the goals of his generation. He is perhaps comparable to Carlo Saraceni in respect to his pictorial refinement and his focus upon the lyrical and the dramatic. In contrast to the broad, open and non-linear style of the Venetian-born Saraceni, however, Gentileschi's more severe and decisive formal compositions and his simple, more impressive manner of drawing clearly reflect the Tuscan temperament. Gentileschi's art is one of those cases in which the surviving vitality of the Tuscan Quattrocento tradition is tangibly evident, but without there being a deliberate dependency, as in the case of Sassoferrato."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Orazio Gentileschi Christ carrying the Cross 1605 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Circumcision of Christ ca. 1605-1607 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica Francesco Podesti, Ancona |
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| Orazio Gentileschi David and Goliath ca. 1605-1607 oil on canvas National Gallery of Ireland |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Landscape with St Christopher ca. 1605-1610 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Orazio Gentileschi The Martyrs Cecilia, Valerian, and Tiburtius visited by an Angel 1606-1607 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Madonna and Child ca. 1607 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Holy Family with St John the Baptist 1607 oil on copper private collection |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Baptism of Christ 1607 oil on canvas Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace, Rome |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes 1608 oil on canvas National Gallery of Norway |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Madonna and Child 1609 oil on canvas National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest |
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| Orazio Gentileschi David with the Head of Goliath 1610 oil on canvas Galleria Spada, Rome |
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| Orazio Gentileschi David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1610 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |