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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1656) was a towering figure of the Italian Baroque and one of the most accomplished painters of the 17th century. A follower of Caravaggio’s dramatic tenebrism, she excelled at depicting powerful, often vengeful women from biblical and mythological lore, most notably in her visceral masterpiece, Judith Slaying Holofernes. Her career was marked by extraordinary resilience; after surviving a traumatic sexual assault and a grueling public trial as a teenager, she defied the era’s gender restrictions to become the first woman admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. Throughout her travels to Rome, Venice, and London, she built an international reputation for her mastery of light, anatomical precision, and her unique ability to infuse female subjects with unprecedented psychological depth and agency.
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