page_title: Agostino Tassi
hierarchical_section_title: Agostino Tassi
context_page_description: Agostino Tassi was a painter of landscapes and seascapes, and the convicted rapist of Artemisia Gentileschi.
  Because he aspired to nobility he modified the details of his early life. Though he was born in Perugia he claimed to have been born in Rome. His family name was Buonamici, but Agostino adopted the surname Tassi to give substance to his story that he was adopted by the Marchese Tassi. He was actually the son of a furrier named Domenico.
context_section_description: Agostino Tassi (born Agostino Buonamici, Perugia, 1578 – Rome, 1644) was a painter of landscapes and seascapes, and the convicted rapist of Artemisia Gentileschi.
  Because he aspired to nobility he modified the details of his early life.  Though he was born in Perugia he claimed to have been born in Rome.  His family name was Buonamici, but Agostino adopted the surname Tassi to give substance to his story that he was adopted by the Marchese Tassi. He was actually the son of a furrier named Domenico.
caption: The Fleet of Aeneas, by Tassi
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