ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI IN A CHANGING LIGHT

Raised to the status of an international luminary by her contemporaries and now revered as one of the defining talents of the sevent eenth century, Artemisia Gentileschi poses urgent questions for today's scholars. The recent outpouring of new attributions and arch ival discoveries has profoundly enriched our knowledge of the artist, but it has also complicated, and sometimes contradicted, the f ormer storyline. If she was illiterate and unschooled, how did she befriend Galileo and court playwright Jacopo Cicognini? If she co uld not ...[Read more]