Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656)
Italian Baroque painter
This is her "Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting"
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Lovely Artemisia, one of the many great female painters the art establishment refused to acknowledge. Her only way into art was to be born into it. Women couldn't get into studios or schools to apprentice.
ReplyDeleteA woman artist? A self-portrait of a woman artist? I imagine it was quite a provocative statement for its era
ReplyDeleteLove the self portrait.
ReplyDeleteI was not familiar with her. Thanks for the intro.
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