Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi One of the first and only female artists to be popular in the seventeenth century was Artemisia Gentileschi, who was a decade ahead of her time. Her Baroque paintings and wall art  which continued in the lines of Caravaggio, were among her generation's most dramatic and energetic. She made headlines for her realism, skillful use of chiaroscuro, and placing women and their tales at the center of all of her works. Her trying to survive works offer singularly personal views on the cultural and social norms of the time, which she commonly deliberately subverted. She did this by...
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