Artnet

A New Book Uses 400-Year-Old Court Transcripts to Recreate Baroque Painter Artemisia Gentileschi’s Rape Trial

In Blood Water Paint, author Joy McCullough tells a tragic yet empowering tale about Artemisia Gentileschi, the 17th-century Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi has gone down in history not only as ...
The Art Newspaper

Recently discovered and restored Artemisia Gentileschi painting will go on view at the Getty in Los Angeles

Artemisia Gentileschi scholars and fans alike have reason to celebrate. After an extensive conservation by the Getty in Los Angeles, a major painting now attributed to the proto-feminist Baroque ...
Artnet

A Nude That Artemisia Gentileschi Painted for Michelangelo’s House Was Covered Up Because It Was Too Racy. Now It Is Being Revealed

Between now and April, visitors to Florence’s Casa Buonarroti, the house museum of Italian Renaissance great Michelangelo, are in for a treat. They can watch a team of experts as they work to restore ...
Hyperallergic

10 Facts You May Not Know About Artemisia Gentileschi

Susan Vreeland’s novel The Passion of Artemisia, a work of historical fiction, inspired this list of facts about one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era. Vreeland chronicles Gentileschi’s life ...
Yahoo

Artemisia Gentileschi's restored masterpieces lead new CMA exhibitions

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two of Artemisia Gentileschi’s extraordinary paintings are on view in "Artemisia Gentileschi: Naples to Beirut," an exhibition ...
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Artemisia Gentileschi's 1616 nude to be digitally unveiled

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the ...
Hyperallergic

A Witty and Refreshingly Feminist Look at Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard Mary Garrard’s compelling new book Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe was supposed to publish on May ...
Los Angeles Times

Artemisia was a painting prodigy and a Baroque icon. Why is she just now getting her due?

Plague swept through Italy’s southern Mediterranean coast in 1656, ravaging towns and villages in the kingdom of Naples. The devastation was epic, piling up corpses over the course of nearly two years ...
The Washington Post

Artemisia Gentileschi overcame trauma and torture to become the greatest female painter of the Baroque

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Artemisia Gentileschi, the greatest female painter of the 17th century ...
The Guardian

‘Hypnotic and bursting with life’: VR version of Artemisia Gentileschi’s life – review

This technically perfect and thrillingly flamboyant re-enactment of the extraordinary artist’s life is a great way to discover the pain and triumph of her often savage work This stately home is so ...
The Guardian

Artemisia Gentileschi’s censored nude painting to be digitally unveiled

Six-month project under way to restore Italian artist’s 1616 work Allegory of Inclination Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a ...