More than 400 years ago, Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi painted her first commission in Florence, adorning the ceiling of Casa Buonarroti—once home to the Renaissance master Michelangelo ...
The painting once enjoyed pride of place, hanging in a queen's chambers. Then centuries of varnish, overpaint and dirt obscured not only the work but also its artist. The layers of history have now ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Artemisia’s darkest moment was in May 1611, two months before her eighteenth birthday, when she was raped by one ...
Conservator Adelaide Izat works on Susanna and the Elders, a painting newly reattributed to Artemisia Gentileschi. Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King ...
Artemisia Gentileschi painted Mary Magdalene in a sudden swoon -— a tradition of matching physical beauty to spiritual elevation. What if you put down your phone, turned away from your bedroom mirror ...
An incredibly rare, long-lost painting by Artemisia Gentileschi has been rediscovered in the U.K.’s Royal Collection. The Italian Baroque painter produced Susanne and the Elders while working with her ...
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