2/2 Also harrassed for bathing, Bathsheba. Painted in 1636 by Artemisia Gentileschi, who never tired of these two themes. Today is her day.

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2/2 Saint Christopher carrying the Christ child through a wonderfully luminous landscape. You can tell it was painted on copper! By Orazio Gentileschi, whose day is today.

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Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Berthe Morisot

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Day 39: Artemisia Gentileschi, Virgin and Child with a Rosary, c. 1651. Oil on copper. Monasterio de San Lorenzo, El Escorial. This small, signed copper panel seems to have been painted for Philip II of Spain. She often sent such small devotional works to potential patrons.

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Day 33: Artemisia Gentileschi, David with the Head of Goliath, 1638-39. Oil on canvas, Private collection. The newest addition to Artemisia’s oeuvre, the artist's signature was discovered during restoration. It seems seems to have painted when the artist was briefly in England.

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Day 12: Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael and Sisera, 1620. Oil on canvas. Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. In this rare biblical subject, heroine Jael kills sleeping Canaanite general Sisera by driving a tent stake through his head. Artemisia signed her name on the plinth behind.

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Day 4: Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, oil on canvas (Private collection). This painting was done in Rome either c. 1610-12, when she was a teenager, or a decade. Either way, it's a powerful response to Caravaggio’s lost version (known through copies).

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Sketch of Italian Baroque painter, in honour of . I’ve often wanted to draw her, to capture the righteous fury in her eyes. Given what she went through in life.

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Voilà 4 women artists whose work deserves recognition. They toiled in the shadow of their male contemporaries. Everybody knows Frida Kahlo, have you heard of Helen Frankenthaler, Artemisia Gentileschi, Berthe Morisot & Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun?

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Corisca and the Satyr (detail), 1636–37. Oil on canvas, 61 × 825/8 in. (155 × 210 cm). Private collection, Naples.

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In 2020 London’s National Gallery will mount a solo show of Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter, the first woman in its 200 year history to be accorded a retrospective

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Susannah is based on the story of "Susanna and the Elders", a tale which has captured the imagination of artists for centuries. Famous depictions include paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt (pictured), Picasso, and American regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton.

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Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of Italian Baroque painters

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July 9, 1563: Italian Baroque painter Orazio Gentileschi is born.

Name sound familiar? It should. Orazio is father to famous female artist Artemisia Gentileschi, whose birthday was yesterday!

From 1626 onward, he was court painter to King Charles I.

🎨 Finding of Moses, 1633

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イタリアの女性画家。オラツィオ・ジェンティレスキの娘ローマ,ロンドン (1638~39) ,ナポリで活躍。オラツィオの画風を受け継ぎ,主要作品は『聖カルロ・ボロメオの奇跡』 (1620以前,主要作品は『聖カルロ・ボロメオの奇跡』 (1620以前

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Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of Italian Baroque painters

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Today we celebrate Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, born 1593 and the first woman to become a member of Florence's Accademia di Arte del Disegno. She was also a rape survivor. "As long as I live I will have control over my being.” https://t.co/44yMOGSnCW

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Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of Italian Baroque painters

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Happy International Women's Day!

Susanna and the Elders, 1610, by Artemisia Gentileschi, and the underpainting, restored by Kathleen Gilje via x-ray, depicting a woman having to choose between either death, or rape. Gentileschi was only 17 when she painted this.

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1620

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