Artemisia Gentileschi
1593–1654 or later · Baroque · 1 work
Artemisia Gentileschi is the most celebrated woman painter of the 1600s. Born in Rome, she trained with her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. In Florence she became an early woman member of the Academy of the Arts of Drawing in 1616, and she worked in Rome, Venice, Naples and London for patrons such as Philip IV of Spain.